Silicon Power SSDs - mixed offer

In recent years - decades - we have seen the computer market develop at an alarming rate - nothing proves this better than the fact that in the last year or two, manufacturers have consciously (with a view to maximizing profits) restrained themselves.

Patterning the main hardware components of our PC can catch our eye on mass storage: this is the area (among other things) that is not showing as much speed improvement as many other IT segments. Of course, we have no complaints about the increase in storage capacity, the technique of vertical data recording has been good for the industry. Yet many of us may have the feeling that we are stumbling a little in one place. Of course, RAID or SCSI / SAS can come to mind - but let's face it: none of them are really for the home environment.

Control cards

That's when the solid-state drive, or SSD, comes into play. In a broader sense, we are not talking about today's children, since the first solid-state storage devices — in the form of ferrite rings — already existed in the heyday of computer technology (the 60s). We had to wait until the end of the 1970s (1978) for the development of the first "modern" solid-state drive. However, the heyday of SSDs can clearly be dated to the third millennium: in 2006, SanDisk bought M-Systems - which company presented its own solution 10 years earlier - and this move started a big avalanche.

SSD internal structure

Last year, SSD came to the forefront of interest - largely due to lower prices and a marketing campaign. We already know that the Hungarian resolution of the three-letter abbreviation is the solid state drive, but what exactly does that mean? It is actually a flash memory storage: a data storage without moving parts implemented with semiconductors that can be connected to a computer as a hard disk.

Tray options

Let's briefly summarize the advantages and disadvantages of SSD compared to "classic" HDD:

+ better access
+ higher data rate
+ lower sensitivity to external influences
+ noiseless operation
+ lower consumption
- high price
- small capacity
- shorter service life and reliability (?)