Instead it has a “solid state drive”. You get no where near the storage capacity of a conventional hard drive and are more expensive which are the biggest disadvantage, but then you don’t get any of the faults from mechanical drives either. Since SSD’s have no moving parts, it’s tons more shock resilient and more durable than a mechanical device which is very important in laptops since they get handled so much. SSD’s also consume less power so your batteries last longer, they have a faster read/write time than mechanical drives, and are silent whereas you can hear the clicks and spinning of a conventional drive.

When manufacturers can come up with a much larger capacity SSD at an affordable price, SSDs will takeover the obsolete mechanical drives.