| The solid state storage drives are aiming to become | | | | time to complete, and when compared to a standard |
| the industry standard in a few short years. Data | | | | hard drive they are far superior. There is however |
| storage has always been an important part of | | | | one small drawback to this new technology, solid |
| computing. Home computers and business computers | | | | state drives are expensive. A 500 gig standard hard |
| all have hard drives to store their data on when the | | | | drive will run you around $55.00 give or take |
| system is shut down. In recent years advancements | | | | depending on the vendor. An 80 gig solid state |
| have been made with capacity, but interface speed | | | | storage drive will run you around $220.00, also give or |
| and reliability have always been issues. | | | | take a few. Keep in mind prices are subject to |
| First off you need to understand the difference | | | | change as the technology advances, but at the time |
| between a normal hard drive, and hard disk, and solid | | | | of this article these were the current prices. This |
| state storage drives. A normal hard drive is a series | | | | leaves many preferring the old style drives due to |
| of magnetic disks fitted onto an electromagnetic | | | | their cheap cost. |
| spindle. These discs are read and written to by a | | | | While some may not feel the trade off for the |
| small arm. This arm is responsible for writing data to | | | | smaller space is worth it some are augmenting there |
| the disks, erasing data, and reading data. The | | | | systems with these. There are larger capacity models |
| problem with this design is that any alteration to the | | | | available but they run several hundred dollars. The |
| angle of the unit, bumps to the computer tower, or | | | | main idea at the moment is to buy one of the 80 gig |
| any jarring motion period can cause data to be | | | | models, install your operating system and primary files |
| damaged. Not to mention the units have several | | | | to it, and use a standard drive for everything else. If |
| moving parts and if any of these go out the unit | | | | you're not a gamer however, or a heavy developer |
| become unusable. | | | | an 80 gig drive might be big enough for you. As solid |
| Solid state storage devices are superior that they | | | | state storage drives advance and become cheaper |
| have no moving parts. These drives resembles a | | | | to make and buy they will begin replacing older disc |
| portable flash drive more than a hard drive in terms | | | | drives. Since they operate on similar basis to a flash |
| of construction. The solid state storage drive is | | | | drive they have fewer chances for errors. |
| essentially a giant slab of memory that can be read, | | | | Performance is almost double on these drives and |
| written to, and erased very easily. Since there are no | | | | tasks like defragmentation take very little time. The |
| moving parts it's very durable, and bumps to the | | | | current downside is the small size, and the price, but |
| computer, or alterations in angle do not affect it. All | | | | these will fade in time. |
| operations on a drive such as this take very little | | | | |