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Solid State Drives (SSD) Upgrade – 5 Things You Should Know
If you’re thinking of getting a Solid State Drive (SSD) for your desktop or laptop…
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The Need for High Speed Interfaces
Processor vendors have continued to ramp the performance of individual processor cores, to combine multiple…
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PCI-Express
PCI-Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) or PCIe is a bus standard that replaced PCI and…
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SAS and SATA
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is a communication protocol traditionally used to move data between storage…
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Garbage Collection
Both wear leveling techniques rely on the availability of free sectors that can be filled…
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Flash Controller
A memory controller has two fundamental tasks: 1. provide the most suitable interface and protocol…
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Things to Look Out For
Capacity Obviously it‟s important to get a drive that‟s big enough to hold your operating…
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Should I get one?
Advantages Speed This is the biggest reason to go for an SSD; they‟re much, much…
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SSDs vs. Conventional Hard Drives
As you can see from the picture above, the main difference between a hard drive…
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Form Factor
5.25” This has always been a favourite form factor for the DRAM SSD, as it…