I'm about to buy a laptop with 1 TB SATA and 128GB SSD, so I just wanted to ask where exactly the difference is and what a SATA is and whether you can save anything on the SATA.
Yes, you can save the TB on the Sata. SATA is the standard, the standard name for the connection cable.
What is TB?
Connection cable as a hard drive?
A terrabyte. Space for 100,000 pictures
No, the cable connects the hard drive and the PC boards. This means that the plug and socket must fit and the data must be transmitted in an orderly manner. Otherwise it doesn't.
And there's 1 TB of space on the cable?
Yes you can. SATA is just the plug of the hard drive. Has been the standard and successor to PATA / IDE for several years.
You then have 128 GB + 1000 GB at your disposal.
Yes, just not at the same time, haha. No! The data is on the hard drive. The cable only transfers the data.
And there's 1000 GB of space on the connector or where does the 1000 GB come from?
Sata is the connection for a normal "mechanical" hard disk. There you can save your data, pictures, films etc. On it. The SSD is probably also connected to the mainboard via a SATA connection, but this memory works much faster. This is where the operating system and programs belong. In contrast to an HDD, an SSD costs more Euro / GB
So the programs come on the SSD and all other files on the SATA?
The plug is the connector. The 1000 GB is the storage volume of the hard disk.
What is this hard drive called?
Preferably yes
128 GB + 1000 GB for free use
that's not true. Windows counts slightly differently, the memory is specified a little smaller. And not everything is free because the operating system uses memory.
Well, it's 932 GB or something. The rest is formatting (yes, the file system itself also requires storage space).
The laptop has two hard drives installed, yes? Hard disk 1 is an SSD and has 128 GB. Hard disk 2: is probably an HDD and has 1000GB (= 1TB). The hard disk 2 is connected to a SATA connector. You can access it via this connector (just like a USB stick is connected via USB connector)
