Solid State Disk

Many people read the packaging on a new smart phone or computer system and see SSD. What is an SSD? SSD's are solid state disks. These disks are the new breed of drives. They have no actual disk inside them, as do traditional drives, but they have a network of circuits within the brick. These are more effecient than the traditional drive for many reasons. One being that they do not use less energy due to the SSD not have to power the spinning disk that is in the traditional drive. This makes for a cooler drive and does not lose energy to heat  as the traditonal ones do. The fact that they have no moving parts also is an advantage in other ways, including they are more durable and more quiet. This is why the SSD's are more expensive than traditional drives.

The most important quality of the SSD is that it can access its memory up to 100xs faster than the traditional drive. This is attributed to the advantages listed above, but also due mainly to the way the data is run through on the hardware. The electronic circuits of memory that compose the SSD can be accessed faster than the magnetic spinning disk within the traditonal hard drive. This allows for faster storage meaning that it can store 300MB/s!

Hard drive

Lets explore the Xbox one’s hardware. The Xbox one is the most recent generation of gamer console released by Microsoft. Xbox one differs from the former in many areas, one of them being storage amount. The Xbox one allows for 8GB of storage memory on the Hard drive, this alone would not be that much, however the primary usage of the Xbox console is from external drives or rather gaming disks. In addition to the 8 GB storage on the Hard drive the gaming console also offers an additional 8 GB RAM ( random access memory) which allows users to store data in no particular order, but also to access the wanted data at will.  If this memory is not enough, the console also has a USB port for additional data storage on zip drives. This console also boasts a Blu ray DVD capabilities through its external drive, as well as the possibility of syncing a keyboard and mouse up with the system.

            The Xbox one has several competitors in its market, two of them being the Nintendo Wii and the PlayStation 4.  The PlayStation 4 also has 8 GB memory, USB port, and it costs $399.99, which is priced lower with the Xbox one being $499.99. The Nintendo Wii  is also a competitor because the Xbox kinect and Wii are both interactive consoles. The Wii is priced at $99.99 with a smaller memory of 1 GB.