SSD stands for solid-state drive. It is a mass storage device built entirely from non-volatile memory chips, typically NAND flash, managed by a dedicated controller. Lacking moving parts, SSDs offer vastly superior read and write speeds, lower physical fragility, and reduced power consumption compared to traditional hard disk drives.
Heard on the job
We need to swap the old boot drives for NVMe SSDs to cut down the compile times on the test bench.
Also heard as
- solid-state drive