Permanent storage based off of Semi Conductors and Transistors inside of NAND Flash. SSDs tend to be faster, but carry less capacity and are more expensive than HDD. For an SSD to work with the OS, the SSD has circuitry to ‘fool’ the OS into thinking the SSD is a traditional spinning drive. Tends to reach 1,000,000 IOPS

Form Factors

SSD Layers

SSD Buses

Concepts