All About Solid State Drives (SSD)

But before we get into that, we’ll take a minute to describe how and why an SSD does garbage collection, and why a drive that does only that would be a weak one indeed. Solid state drives have two hangups that force them to deal with data differently than hard disk drives do: they can only erase data in larger chunks than they can write it, and their storage cells can only be written a certain number of times (10000 is standard) before they start to fail. …