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A Solid State Drive or SSD is another form of data storage device commonly found in flash devices such as USB flash drives and memory cards. SSD drives hold certain advantages over the more common hard disks. Let us discuss the differences between a Solid State Drive and the typical hard drive.

Advantages:

• Durability – It is not sensitive to shocks and will not be easily damaged when dropped because there are no moving parts.
• Speed – Since it has no spinning platters, it does not require any spin up time to initialize which means that as soon as you boot-up the machine, it is ready for to use. It also offers faster random access rates because of the absence of a read and write head.
• Weight – It is lighter than hard drives because of lesser parts.
• Quiet – It doesn’t produce any noticeable noise
• Efficient – It consumes lesser power. (more…)