Advantages Of Solid State Drive

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The solid state drive is a very unique piece of technology that was created in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. It is a storage device that incorporates solid-state memory and emulates a hard disk drive to store data. Solid state drives use interfaces such as USB and PCI express. It is very light, quiet and uses very little power to function, thus making it a very important piece in a modern day computer. As time goes by, there are more and more solid state drives that are found in laptops and even mobile devices as they are relativity smaller than hard disk drives and are much faster. Also if you accidently drop your laptop or mobile device from a decent height (five feet) while it’s processing, then you will greater chances of retrieving your data than a hard disk drive. But there are indeed some downsides to the solid state drive, not many but one that makes it hard to come by, the cost. The cost of these small, fast, crazy pieces cost roughly 3$/gigabyte to 0.15$/gigabyte depending on the model, brand, speed and size of course. Compared to other storage devices, these are the highest possible prices that you can ask for, with reason of course, these things are far too fast …show more content…

So if you’re a photographer or someone that is looking for storage, the best option would be to get yourself a hard disk drive, it might be slow, but you’re paying far less than a solid state drive and getting a lot more storage. The more gigabytes the solid state drive, the more it will cost as they are the new technology, and to get the newest technology, you have to pay the big bucks. On August 15, 2015, Samsung developed and released the world’s largest hard drive at 16TB, and it’s a solid state drive… I wonder how much that is going for. All in all, the hard disk drive easily wins on price, capacity and availability, whilst the solid state drives wins on speed (fragmentation), form factor, durability and

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