ssd

A solid state drive uses solid state memory to store data. Solid state in this context means that the drive has no moving parts in contrast to electro-mechanical hard drives which are currently dominating the computer world.

Modern solid state drives have several advantages and disadvantages when compared to hard drives. The advantages include a faster random access time, faster startup, silent operations and the ability to endure extreme conditions in which hard drives would normally fail. The disadvantages include the higher price per Gigabyte, performance degradation over time (which is countered by trim and garbage collection) and lower capacities than hard drives.

Major advancements are currently made in the development of new Solid State Drives that reduce the negative aspects of using a SSD in comparison to a standard hard drive.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “ssd”

• in Technology
  Pure Storage Launches Next Generation All-Flash Storage Array
  All-Flash Storage Arrays Make SSD Affordable
  by dukes480 / on Jun 11, 2012
• in IT
  SSD Storage Faces Doubtful Future
  Studies cast doubt on current SSD scalability
  by oldgoat1957 / on Feb 20, 2012

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• WD and Sandisk collaborate to create innovative hybrid drives

  
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  Western Digital (WD) and Sandisk are teaming up to create Solid State Hybrid Drives. SanDisk is supplying a SanDisk iSSD storage device for the WD Black solid state hybrid drive (SSHD), the world’s thinnest 2.5-inch SSHD solution. More information in the Press Release. WD® AND SANDISK TEAM UP TO CREATE ...
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• Desktop SSD…

  
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• TDK announces SDG4A solid-state drives

  
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• Web Host A2 Hosting Launches SSDs on Dedicated Servers

  
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• MacBook Pro Mid 2009 : Replacing hard drive with SSD…

  
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• The News: Thursday, May 9 Edition

  
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• Seagate Launches SSDs

  
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• Acer Teams up With DJ Tiesto to Launch the Acer Aspire P3

  
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• News for Thursday May 9th 2013

  
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• TDK launches SDG4A Series of industrial solid state drives with 3 Gbps serial ATA support

  
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  TDK announced today the SDG4A series of serial ATA II compatible industrial solid state drives (SSDs) in 2.5 inch form factor with a maxi-mum capacity of 512 GByte. The product employs the newly developed TDK SSD Controller GBDriver RS4 Series. Even without using DRAM cache memory, this makes it possible to meet the ...
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• Micron P420m PCIe SSD I/O Accelerators

  
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• Dell Latitude E6230 Review

  
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• EMCworld 2013 Day 3

  
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  Rich Napolitano, President Unified Storage Division got up and showed some technology demonstrations of what they had working in their labs.  Rich had some of his long time engineers up on the stage to show what was running in their labs. First up was a dual controller, dual processors per controller 8 core ...
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