The modern day SSDs are available in different variants, you have the standard SATA based SSD, and for those who don’t want that, you also have SSDs based on the PCI-E standard, and the M.2 to standard. With that out of the way, it would be wrong to forget that SSDs are still dominating the market with most of the laptop manufacturers including Apple are completely getting rid of the mechanical hard drives and are opting for SSDs, allowing the users to increase the productivity, and get the best possible performance. However, at the same time, the downside is that SSDs are a lot expensive than the traditional hard drives, and often the cost you’re paying for per gigabyte isn’t really in favour of the SSD. In addition to that, there are actually a lot of benefits of an SSD over the traditional hard drive, for starters, the read and write speeds on SSDs are a lot faster, and SSDs live longer, and don’t die if you simply turn off the power, or it turns off due to some power outage. Still, for those wondering, a NAND flash is basically something made out of floating gate transistors, these transistors are different to what we find in the DRAMs because unlike those transistors, the floating gate transistors have the ability to hold a charge on them for long period of time, making the NAND flash a non-volatile memory. SSDs work on a drastically different formula, and instead of storing data on moving discs, it stores data on NAND flashes now everyone knows what a NAND flash is because it’s basic computer language. However, this introduces a higher level of failure should the PC turns off, and the disc just stops spinning, and overall, a slower read and write speed. We all know that hard disk drives save data on the discs that then spin, that’s how the data gets written and read on them.
For those who don’t know, SSD is the modern type of storage device that uses a different, better, and more efficient approach to save data.
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