TL;DR
A solid-state drive is a storage device that holds data in NAND flash memory chips with no moving parts, replacing the spinning platters and read head of a mechanical hard disk. The swap is the single most effective upgrade for an aging computer, cutting boot and load times severalfold, and it ships in 2.5-inch SATA and much faster M.2 NVMe form factors.
What it means
A solid-state drive is a storage device that holds data in NAND flash memory chips with no moving parts, replacing the spinning platters and read head of a mechanical hard disk. The swap is the single most effective upgrade for an aging computer, cutting boot and load times severalfold, and it ships in 2.5-inch SATA and much faster M.2 NVMe form factors. Flash cells wear with writes, so drive health is tracked through SMART data and a terabytes-written endurance rating.
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