Solid State Disk

What is SSD?
Solid-state drives, or SSDs, store data on flash memory chips and are often compared to hard drives, which store data on magnetic platters.
SSDs consume less power and have no moving parts, making them less vulnerable to failure compared to hard drives.
What is SSD?
Growing adoption has erased initial concerns about SSD durability, but it has a lesser storage capacity and remains more expensive than hard drives.
What is new about SSD?
Samsung Electronics has started mass production of 256 GB solid-state drives, which could make their way into laptops in a few months, the company announced Thursday (November 20, 2008.). …