A head to head comparison of a standard 2TB 7200RPM Hard Disk Drive to a 120 GB 840 EVO Solid State Drive.<br>Replaced hard drive, startup time comparison.<br>Speed difference between a normal hard disk drive (HDD) and a solid state drive (SSD). The laptop being used is a Toshiba Protégé R30-A loaded with .<br>Boot Up and Shutdown times of Ubuntu 14.04 versus Windows 8, using a Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD! Time line: 0:03 Unboxing of Samsung SSD No .<br> Nicolas11x12 comparing a SSD with a HDD with a Boot-up, Shut-down, Copy and Startup test. Both computer systems have .