SSD drive technology and information

How to build a large capacity, fast, portable SSD drive

 (Fri Jul 26 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) SSD drives are fast, light weight, very reliable, and require very little power. That makes them very attractive as portable drives when away from home. We might need more data storage than is in our laptop making an external portable drive a necessity. While we can buy a manufactured external SSD drive, it's also very easy to build our own.

Monitoring SSD drive health

 (Sun Nov 19 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time))

SSD drives are awesome, they're fast, they consume little power, they're light weight, and so on. But we all worry about whether the drive will unexpectedly die, since a truism going around is that SSD drives will just up-and-quit taking your whole computer with it. It's useful, therefore, to have fore-warning by monitoring the health of your SSD drive. A key is to ensure your drive has the S.M.A.R.T. feature (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology). The next key is getting software that can query S.M.A.R.T. data, presenting it in a way that makes sense to you.

Does a larger SSD drive have longer lifetime expectancy?

 (Sun Nov 19 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time))

While SSD drives are awesome and give excellent performance, we all have a fear of the "Sudden SSD Death Syndrome" or that sudden "hey why did my computer just die" moment. While spinning-platter drives also wear out and die, the risk of SSD drive failure weighs in the back of our collective mind. A truism going around is that "overprovisioning" your SSD drive will ensure a longer lifespan for the drive.

SSD drive lifetime expectancy explained

 (Sun Mar 26 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) SSD drives are awesome, they're extremely faster than spinning drives, lower weight, lower power consumption, no noise, and are a direct plug-in replacement for spinning drives. Thanks to technology advances the price is falling rapidly making them more feasible every day. The problem is they're known to suddenly die giving us a fear of losing our data and suddenly having to replace the drive. This video does an excellent job of explaining the reality, and tells us to not panic but instead to make sure to leave lots of free space on the drive.

SSD drive technology, MLC, TLC, SLC

 (Sun Mar 26 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) SSD drives are awesome, they're extremely faster than spinning drives, lower weight, lower power consumption, no noise, and are a direct plug-in replacement for spinning drives. Making the best choice between the available SSD's means understanding what MLC, TLC and SLC means. These acronyms cover different types of SSD drive, and tradeoff's between speed, performance, data storage and reliability. The 'C' in each acronym means 'Cell', and each refers to a different architecture.