The result is a custom flash drives can withstand freezing in dry ice, immersion in a hundred meters of water where they are not heated above 250 degrees Fahrenheit. The price is competitive with other units listed here, but the capacity is actually less than 1 GB. But this is a very attractive price, and the unity of quality, has prepared take the weight of the extreme elements. A test unit in a forest fire can be useful to trust with invaluable information to neglect its attractive design, “Swiss army knife and becomes a portable, fireproof safe ready to fly. Robust, durable USB flash drives should not be like a miniature lobster should instead design of smart materials that go into an upscale, Rugged USB.

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.

As you can see, all of the advantages are the result of having no moving parts.

Disadvantages:

• Security – I’m not going to go into details but data security is an issue with flash drives.
• Limited Write Cycles – Flash drives are limited to a number of write cycles
• Cost – Flash memory is more expensive compared to ordinary hard drives comparing it per gigabyte

The application of Solid State Drives to laptops is beneficial considering the nature of laptops being mobile devices. By employing SSD’s to mobile computers, the danger of data corruption from shocks and such is eliminated or at least reduced to a minimum. Also, battery life will increase substantially because there are no moving parts. Overall, this is good news for laptops. The only disadvantage would be the cost. At the moment SSD drives are still very expensive and only a lucky few can afford it.