Solid State Drives are becoming increasingly popular. They form the next generation of storage mediums.

Solid State Drives (SSDs) utilize several groups of flash memory instead of a rotating magnetic cylinder. It is a rather new technology which offers a high performance. Because an SSD device has no moving parts, it works absolutely silently and also doesn't need any special cooling. SSDs are already deployed in many netbooks. SSD drives are very durable and shock-resistant in contrast to HDDs (normal hard disk drives), which are prone to mechanical defects when subjected to hard shocks.

Hybrid drives are normal magnetic hard disks which are equipped with an additional flash memory component which serves as a buffer. Only when the flash memory is full, data is written to the hard disc. This helps to save energy, because the hard drive motor is only activated when the disk is actually used. Hybrid drives can be faster than usual hard drives.

SSD :: Flash Memory Based Solid State Drives

Advantages of SSDs

very long life-span very energy-efficient high data persistency completely shock-resistant silent marginal head development can boot a computer in a few seconds identical data throughput for sustained and random access full performance even with 100% memory usage! usable with any SATA port 2,5'' or 3,5'' size according to ISO standard

MSD Series – For Consumer Electronics

2,5'' MSD Series - Mtron Solid State Drives

These SSDs are enclosed in a durable plastic case and have a SATA interface.

• Form factor: 2.5''/3.5''
• Capacity: 32 GB/46 GB
• Interface: SATA 1.0a / ATA 7 Standard
• Case: USB 2.0 Standard
• IOPS (input/output operations per second): 80.000 (sequential)/18.000 (random access)
• Writability: ca. 140 years, if ca. 50 GB are written per day
• Readability: unlimited
• Data durability: 10 years at 25° C/77° F
• Life span: 1,000,000 hours
• ECC: 7 bit error correction code
• Operating temperature: 0–70° C/32°–158° F
• Access time: ca. 0.1 ms
• Data rate: 120/90 MB/s (read/write)
• 3 years warranty

MSP Series – For Enterprise Computing

3,5" MSP Series - Mtron Solid State Drives.

These SSD devices are enclosed in an aluminium case with a SATA interface.

• Form factor: 2.5''/3.5''
• Capacity: 32 GB/64 GB
• Interface: SATA 1.0a / ATA 7 Standard
• Case: USB 2.0 Standard
• IOPS (input/output operations per second): 80.000 (sequential)/18.000 (random access)
• Writability: ca. 140 years, if ca. 50 GB are written per day
• Readability: unlimited
• Data durability: 10 years at 25° C/77° F
• Life span: 1,000,000 hours
• ECC: 7 bit error correction code
• Operating temperature: 0–70° C/32°–158° F
• Access time: ca. 0.1 ms
• Data rate: 120/90 MB/s (read/write)
• 5 years warranty