SSD Drives (Solid State Drives)

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SSD Drives

Revolutionize Mobile Data Storage Silicon Mountain Memory offers SSD drives as a fast “no moving parts” solution to replacing or enhancing hard drive storage. SSD drives are fast, reliable, long lived and rugged, far less susceptible to damage while carrying or dropping your netbook or laptop.

The SMM SSD Drives feature state of the art design and easy and quick installation.

SSD Definition

"A solid state disk (SSD) is electrically, mechanically and software compatible with a conventional (magnetic) hard disk or winchester. The difference is that the storage medium is not magnetic (like a hard disk) or optical (like a CD) but solid state semiconductor such as battery backed RAM, EPROM or other electrically erasable RAMlike chip. This provides faster access time than a disk, because the data can be randomly accessed and does not rely on a read/write interface head synchronising with a rotating disk. The SSD also provides greater physical resilience to physical vibration, shock and extreme temperature fluctuations. The only downside is a higher cost per megabyte of storage."

Most Popular Solid State Upgrades

	Product	Price
	16GB Solid State Hard Drive - MLC Mini PCIe for Asus Eee PC Solid State Hard Drive	$79.99

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Other SSD products

Solid State Hard Drive - SLC 2.5"

16GB Solid State Hard Drive - SLC 2.5" SATA2

32GB Solid State Hard Drive - SLC 2.5" SATA2

64GB Solid State Hard Drive - SLC 2.5" SATA2

Solid State Hard Drive - MLC 1.8"

16GB Solid State Hard Drive - MLC 1.8" SATA2

32GB Solid State Hard Drive - MLC 1.8" SATA2

64GB Solid State Hard Drive - MLC 1.8" SATA2

128GB Solid State Hard Drive - MLC 1.8" SATA2

Solid State Hard Drive MLC 2.5"

16GB Solid State Hard Drive MLC 2.5" IDE

32GB Solid State Hard Drive - MLC 2.5" SATA2

64GB Solid State Hard Drive - MLC 2.5" SATA2

128GB Solid State Hard Drive - MLC 2.5" SATA2

256GB Solid State Hard Drive - MLC 2.5" SATA2

Solid State Hard Drive - MLC Mini PCIe for Asus Eee PC

16GB Solid State Hard Drive - MLC Mini 2 PCIe for Asus Eee PC

32GB Solid State Hard Drive - MLC Mini 2 PCIe for Asus Eee PC

64GB Solid State Hard Drive - MLC Mini 2 PCIe for Asus Eee PC

16GB Solid State Hard Drive - MLC Mini PCIe for Asus Eee PC

32GB Solid State Hard Drive - MLC Mini PCIe for Asus Eee PC

64GB Solid State Hard Drive - MLC Mini PCIe for Asus Eee PC

16GB Solid State Hard Drive - MLC Mini PCIe for Asus S101 Eee PC

32GB Solid State Hard Drive - MLC Mini PCIe for Asus S101 Eee PC

64GB Solid State Hard Drive - MLC Mini PCIe for Asus S101 Eee PC

Why SSD

Faster start-up because no spin-up is required.
Fast random access because there is no read/write head
Low read latency times for RAM drives. In applications where hard disk seeks are the limiting factor, this results in faster boot and application launch times (see Amdahl's law).
Consistent read performance because physical location of data is irrelevant for SSDs.
File fragmentation has negligible effect.
Silent operation due to the lack of moving parts.
Low capacity flash SSDs have a low power consumption and generate little heat when in use.
High mechanical reliability, as the lack of moving parts almost eliminates the risk of "mechanical" failure.
Ability to endure extreme shock, high altitude, vibration and extremes of temperature. This makes SSDs useful for laptops, mobile computers, and devices that operate in extreme conditions (flash).
For low-capacity SSDs, lower weight and size: although size and weight per unit storage are still better for traditional hard drives, and microdrives allow up to 20 GB storage in a CompactFlash form-factor.
As of 2008 SSDs up to 256 GB are lighter than hard drives of the same capacity.
Failures occur less frequently whilst writing/erasing data, which means there is a lower chance of irrecoverable data damage.

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