Removable memory Planet : SSD or Solid State Drives!!!

Today Removable memory Planet will talk about one of the big items in the world of computers from the 2007 CES show in Las Vegas is the SSD or solid State Drive. This is actually technology that has been around for many years, but only now is it actually set to become something that consumer may actually get to use within the next year.



Removable memory Planet : Solid State Drive



Solid state is an electrical term that refers to electronic circuitry that is built entirely out of semiconductors. The term was originally used to define those electronics such as a transistor radio that used semiconductors rather than vacuum tubes in its construction. Most all electronics that we have today are built around semiconductors and chips. In term of a SSD, it refers to the fact that the primary storage medium is through semiconductors rather than a magnetic media such as a hard drive.

Now, you might say that this type of storage already exists in the form of flash memory drives that plug into the USB port. This is partially true as solid state drives and USB flash drives both use the same type of non-valotile memory chips that retain their information even when they have no power. The difference is in the form factor and capacity of the drives. While a flash drive is designed to be external to the computer system, an SSD is designed to reside inside the computer in place of a more traditional hard drive.

So how exactly do they do this ? Well, an SSD on the outside looks almost no different than a traditional hard drive. This design is to allow the SSD drive to put in a notebook or desktop computer in place of a hard drive. To do this, it needs to have the standard dimension as a 1.8, 2.5 or 3.5-inch hard drive. It also will use either the ATA or SATA drive interfaces so that there is a compatible interface.

Removable memory Planet : what is going to be in the future ?

Since our new technologies have been improved rapidly, the physical size of the storage keeps shrinking, the storage capacitor keeps growing and the cost of the storage is dropping severely. In the future you will be able to carry all data in your computer with you wherever you go. The removable storage memory will take a great roll in the future. Everybody will need it and it will affect every activity dealing with transferring data or information. Therefore, removable memory planet want you to know how about by video clip. 

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Removable memory Planet : How small is it going to be?

Today removable memory planet will talk about trends, one of the common trends in removable memory is to make the physical package smaller and smaller while increasing the amount of data that can be stored.

Magnetic storage is moving in two parallel directions. There are products coming out that use small cartridges with capacity measured in megabytes, and there are portable hard drives that range in the gigabytes.

One company has introduced a micro-optical drive. This tiny drive, about the size of a matchbox, uses tiny optical discs that are encased in a plastic shell. Each disc is capable of holding 500 MB of information. The drive actually reads both sides of the disc, meaning that the disc stores 250 MB per side.




Removable memory planet : Tiny Optical Discs



For the solid-stage storage Smart Media and Compact Flash cards continue to increase in capacity while maintaining their tiny size. Other solid-state memory devices, such as Sony's Memory Stick, are even smaller.

Removable memory planet : Compact Flash card


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