Solid state hard drive (SDD) is the newest type of hard drive on the market at this time.  Currently only being produced for laptop systems, these hard drives are based on flash memory and have no moving parts like the standard hard drives we know today.  While they are much faster, cooler, and more energy efficient, the price is much to be desired per gigabyte.  The intentions of this page is not to detail out what all a SSD drive is made of and how it works, but rather to show  the pro’s and con’s.  Maybe latter on (a couple of years) we will re-evaluate and include specifications of the such, when they have become a defacto in the hard drive industry (if it happens).

Solid State Hard Drive Pro’s:

• Very fast start-ups and data transfer, no spinning components
• Fast read/write times
• Heat generation is minimized compared to a mechanical drive
• Mechanical failure is reduced to electronic failure only, not both
• Don’t weigh as much as counter part laptop drives

Solid State Hard Drive Con’s:

• Cost more per gigabyte, then traditional mechanical drives
• Storage space is behind the mechanical drives
  
• Further acceptable to magnetic fields and static electricity
• Could “wear out” sooner than a conventional drive, if read/writes (data) is written in the same area over and over instead of the entire drive.  This issue is known and is addressed with software and firmware to prevent such things from happening.