Solid State Drives (A High Level Overview)

(Season 3) Episode 11
Storage Arc [1/3]

If you've got a home computer of any type, odds are it has a Solid State Drive in it these days! SSDs are (generally) the replacement for the venerable hard drive, but what are all of these marketing terms? And how do you get the best drive for your needs?

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Storage Arc [1/3]

If you’ve got a home computer of any type, odds are it has a Solid State Drive in it these days! SSDs are (generally) the replacement for the venerable hard drive, but what are all of these marketing terms? And how do you get the best drive for your needs?

Sources:

DRAM Cacheless Drives:

Tom’s Hardware, 11 February 2017, “11-Drive DRAMless SSD Round Up“Linus Tech Tips @ Youtube.com, “How bad is this $20 SSD??“

“Fastest Hard Drive” (Potentially faster than DRAMless SSD):

StorageReview, 30 March 2015, “Seagate Enterprise Performance 15K HDD With TurboBoost Review”Serve The Home, 28 October 2016, “Seagate Launches the Final 15K rpm Hard Drive: RIP 15K HDDs“

Basic HDD vs SSD differences (Mechanical):

Backblaze, 20 September 2018, “Hard Disk Drive (HDD) vs Solid State Drive (SSD): What’s the Diff?”

SSD Reliability:

Backblaze, 21 February 2019, “How Reliable are SSDs?”Intel Support Page, Accessed: 10 March 2021, “What do SLC, MLC, TLC, and QLC mean?”

SATA/SAS (Mention):

Intel Article, Accessed 10 March 2021, “Developers Can Trust Intel Leadership in Serial ATA”HP Tech Takes, 21 April 2019, “SAS vs SATA: What’s the Difference?“Sandisk Customer Support, Accessed: 10 March 2021, “Difference between SATA I, SATA II and SATA III”

SATA, PCIe, NVME, M.2:

Digital Trends, 14 April 2020, “SATA vs. PCIe: What’s the difference?”Newegg Insider, Accessed: 10 March 2021, “M.2 and NVMe SSDs: What are they and how do they benefit your PC?“Western Digital Blog, 9 June 2020, “What is NVMe and why is it important? A Technical Guide“

Using QLC SSD as SLC (Mention):

Linus Tech Tips @ Youtube.com, “This is TWO SSDs”

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