What is Solid State Drives

Solid State Drives (SSDs), also known as solid state disks, are hard disks made from arrays of solid-state electronic storage chips, consisting of a control unit and a storage unit. In the interface specification and definition, function and use of the same as ordinary hard disk, in the product shape and size is also consistent with the ordinary hard disk. It is widely used in military, automotive, industrial control, video surveillance, network monitoring, network terminals, power, medical, aviation, navigation equipment and other fields. The storage medium of solid state hard disk is divided into flash memory (FLASH chip), DRAM two kinds. Its chip operating temperature range is very wide, commercial products 0 ~ 70 ℃; industrial products -40 ~ 85 ℃. Since solid state drive technology is different from traditional hard disk technology, it has generated a number of emerging memory manufacturers. The new generation of SSDs commonly use SATA-2 interface, SATA-3 interface, SAS interface, MSATA interface, PCI-E interface and so on.