Answer: Because SSD's are faster and consume less power
Why are many computers especially ultraportable ones using SSDs instead of traditional magnetic hard drives?

Compared with electromechanical drives SSDs are typically more resistant to physical shock run silently and have quicker access time and lower latency. SSDs store …

HDDs are being superseded by solid-state drives (SSDs) in markets where their higher speed (up to 4950 megabytes) (4.95 gigabytes) per second for M.2 (NGFF) NVMe SSDs or 2500 megabytes (2.5 gigabytes) per second for PCIe expansion card drives) ruggedness and lower power are more important than price …

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A laptop or laptop computer is a small portable personal computer (PC) with a "clamshell" form factor typically having a thin LCD or LED computer screen mounted on the inside of the upper lid of the clamshell and an alphanumeric keyboard on the inside of the lower lid. The clamshell is opened up to use the computer …

SATA was announced in 2000 in order to provide several advantages over the earlier PATA interface such as reduced cable size and cost (seven conductors instead of 40 or 80) native hot swapping faster data transfer through higher signaling rates and more efficient transfer through an (optional) I/O queuing protocol.

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