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!