How does an SSD work?

TehYoyo · May 12, 2012

Apparently, it's not a 'mechanical' hard drive...which I interpret to mean that it doesn't have a spinning disk...is this true?

How does it work, if that's the case?

OCCrisisMaker · May 12, 2012

Think of an SSD as a very large thumb drive. There are no moving parts, taking one apart you would only see what appear to be ram chips. See pictures here:
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=i...7.7.0.0.0.0.176.816.2j5.7.0...0.0.MTwUmwZqNT0
Wikipedia has a huge article (probably too much info) on SSD's here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_state_drive
if you can get through it, it is very informative

TehYoyo · May 13, 2012

OCCrisisMaker said:
Think of an SSD as a very large thumb drive. There are no moving parts, taking one apart you would only see what appear to be ram chips. See pictures here:
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=i...7.7.0.0.0.0.176.816.2j5.7.0...0.0.MTwUmwZqNT0
Wikipedia has a huge article (probably too much info) on SSD's here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_state_drive
if you can get through it, it is very informative

But USBs are pretty slow...is it comparable to a bigger USB 3.0 drive?

MunkyTOS · May 13, 2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_state_drive read, do it.

ssjwizard · May 13, 2012

USB is slow SATA2 / SATA3 is not slow. The controllers used in SSDs are also substantially faster than those used on USB flash disks. From your motherboards perspective a SSD and a HDD are exactly the same.

Brynnae · May 15, 2012

Solid State Device is a data storage device that uses integrated circuit assembly as memory and it uses NAND base flash memory which retains data without power.

How does an SSD work?

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