Solid state drives: A comparative study

SSD have been a major breakthrough in the past year in the area of large memories. Most new tech are based on SSD. As their prices decline, their storage capacities increase, and their endurance improves, NAND Flash Solid State Disks (SSD) provide an increasingly attractive alternative to Hard Disk Drives (HDD) for portable computing systems and PCs. This paper draws a parallel comparison between the new and the old storage technologies respect to various attributes like their internal working, physical dimensions, mobility, performance, cost and lifetime.Both of the major technologies offer some major advantages but the new Solid State Drives(SSD) gains the upper hand.