What is solid state drive (SSD)?
A hard drive is naturally used for data storage. Solid State Drives are made from solid-state electronic storage chips, and compared to traditional mechanical hard drives, they exceed in terms of speed, risk resistance, lifespan, and portability. SSDs have the advantages of quick read and write, lightweight, low energy consumption, and small size that traditional mechanical hard drives do not have, but their disadvantages are also significant. They are still relatively expensive, have low capacity, and once the hardware is damaged, data recovery is difficult. Some people also believe that SSDs have relatively short durability (lifespan). Traditional hard drives are disk-based, and data is stored in disk sectors. This means that there is a high probability of data loss due to hardware damage when a laptop accidentally falls. SSDs, on the other hand, have no mechanical components inside, so there is no such concern. Solid State Drives have the same interface specifications and definitions, functionality, and usage methods as ordinary hard drives, and their external appearance and size are also identical to ordinary hard drives. SSDs are widely used in military, automotive, industrial control, video surveillance, and other fields.
What are the characteristics of solid state drives?
Low power consumption: The power consumption of SSDs is lower than that of traditional hard drives.
No noise: Solid state drives have no mechanical motors or fans, and the noise value during operation is 0 decibels. Flash-based SSDs have low power consumption and heat dissipation during operation (although high-end or large-capacity products may have higher power consumption). There are no mechanical moving parts inside, so there will be no mechanical failures and they are not afraid of collisions, shocks, and vibrations. Because SSDs use flash memory chips without mechanical components, they have the characteristics of low heat dissipation and fast heat dissipation.
Wide range of working temperatures: Typical hard drives can only work within a temperature range of 5 to 55 degrees Celsius. Most SSDs can work in temperatures ranging from -10 to 70 degrees Celsius. SSDs are smaller and lighter than the same capacity mechanical hard drives. The interface specifications and definitions, functionality, and usage methods of SSDs are the same as those of ordinary hard drives, and their external appearance and size are also identical to ordinary hard drives. The working temperature range of their chips is very wide (-40 to 85 degrees Celsius).
Portability: Solid state drives are lighter in weight, and are 20 to 30 grams lighter than conventional 1.8-inch hard drives.
