HHD faster than SSD?

[plunar]

is the mba hhd faster than the ssd?

 

[iToaster]

No, the SSD contains no moving components so it can jump strait to data instead of having to wait for the platters of a conventional hard drive to come up to speed.

 

[O. Frabjous-Dey]

Right. Don't be deceived by the graphs that show that HDD peak I/O is higher: random access is much more important, since the things that your computer wants to read are going to be scattered all over the hard drive.

Of course, is it $700 better? That's up to you to decide.