A solid state drive (SSD) is a flash-based drive that uses solid-state memory to store data. An SSD functions like a normal hard disk but has many benefits over traditional mechanical hard disk drives (HDD). With no moving parts, SSDs greatly reduce seek time, latency and other electro-mechanical delays and failures associated with normal hard drives. They are also ideally suited for mobile and rugged applications because they are far more resilient to vibration, shaking, drops, and other forces that commonly corrupt traditional HDDs. *Please make sure you get the right interface (SATA or IDE) and size for your PC or device: 3.5" drives for desktop PCs, 2.5" drives for laptops, and 1.8" for ultra-mobile PCs. They also fit into respectively sized external enclosures just like a regular HDD. |
