To understand how and why SSDs are different from spinning discs, we need to discuss hard drives. A hard drive stores data on a series of spinning magnetic disks called platters. This diagram shows an ...

Here at ExtremeTech, we've often discussed the difference between different types of NAND structures -- vertical NAND versus planar, or multi-level cell (MLC) versus triple-level cells (TLC) and ...

A solid state drive (SSD) is an external storage device for your computer that works like a USB flash drive.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Solid-state storage is one of the most transformative technologies of the 21st century, doing away with bulky hard drives and allowing us to ...