Solid-State Drive (SSD)
A solid state drive is a storage device that has no moving parts making it silent and more robust than an HDD. Solid state drives operate much faster than traditional hard drives as they store data electronically and not magnetically as with a traditional hard drive.
Advantages/Benefits
Gives faster access to stored files when compared to an HDD. Used as secondary storage to store data, program files and operating system files.
Disadvantage
SSDs are more expensive than HDDs per GB of storage space, but in recent times this price gap is becoming smaller.
Limitation
Almost impossible to do a data recovery from an SSD. SSDs have a limited number of write cycles. The SSD can wear out after using it for a long time as data can be written to or erased from the same place in flash memory for a limited number of times.
Application in an ICT environment
Are found in tablets and PCs, laptops, computer games, etc. Standard for ultra-thin and high-performance laptops/ultra-books. Would be preferable for workloads that require higher performance, quick read/write speeds, for example, database applications.
