An SSD has rich internal parallelism for data processing.
In comparison to HDDs and similar electromechanical See more

The key components of an SSD are the controller and the memory to store the data. The primary memory component in an SSD was traditionally DRAM volatile memory, … See more

Hard disk drives
Making a comparison between SSDs and ordinary (spinning) HDDs is difficult. Traditional HDD benchmarks tend to focus on the performance … See more

As of 2009, the cost of HDD storage was so much less that SSD was generally only used for applications where storage speed was See more

Early SSDs using RAM and similar technology
An early—if not the first—semiconductor storage device compatible with a hard drive interface (e.g. … See more

The size and shape of any device are largely driven by the size and shape of the components used to make that device. Traditional HDDs and optical drives are designed around the rotating platter(s) or optical disc along with the spindle motor inside. Since an … See more

SSDs have very different failure modes from traditional magnetic hard drives. Because solid-state drives contain no moving parts, they are generally not subject to … See more