They do similar jobs, but in a different way
What are disk partitions?
Hard drives, SSDs, and other storage devices require a system to organize the physical data storage in a way that a computer can understand.
Partitions, volumes, and logical drives are all examples of different ways you can map your storage device. While they perform a similar task, there are key differences between them.
Computers store all data on some form of physical media, usually a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid state drive (SSD). Physical storage is something you can touch, and the actual data is represented in a physical way. Pits and lands on an optical disk represent ones and zeros. In an SSD, those bits of data are expressed by memory cells that hold different levels of charge.
