The traditional magnetic disks such as hard disk drive (HDD) or floppy disk, which are electomechanical devices containing spinning disks and movable read & write heads, have been part of our daily life well over 30-year. Such data storage media is so essential; basically you really can’t get your job done without involving them. However, when you recall your memory on last 10-year or so … how many times you had been suffered from totally-unexpected storage crash on either HHDs or floppy disks/CR-ROMs … Being so frustrated about your total loss of those valuable data or those happy memories.
For sure, the invention of Solid State Memory is an answer to address all the shortfalls of the traditional HHDs. With the advance process technology on Non-volatile memory (NAND Flash) on last 15-year, NAND-based Solid State Device (SSD) is really driving a groundbreaking change in the world of storage media. Mr. Apple is the pioneer to fully maximize the values of NAND Flash … creating many and many irresistible overwhelmingly ICON-class Products.
SSD is a truly electronic device such that there is no moving parts nor mechanical parts on it. SSDs are typically much less susceptible to physical shock, are silent, are ‘cool’ (less generated heat), have lower access time and latency which resulting much faster in data transmission speed. SSDs use the same interface as hard disk drive, thus easily be a HHD replacement in most applications.
On last few years, SSDs have been used successfully as HDD replacements by the military and aerospace industries, as well as for other mission-critical applications. These applications require the exceptional mean-time-between-failure (MTBF) rates that solid-state drives achieve, by virtue of their ability to withstand extreme shock, vibration and temperature ranges.
ith the good learning, now SSDs are penetrating the consumer market.
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