what is the difference ?
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OK I asked Mrs Google about difference between SSD and Flash drive , and this is what she said : What's the difference between flash and SSD storage? | PC Gamer[^] In much lesser wording: They are read / write storage devices (RAM ?) , some connected via USB... where the actual storage memory is implemented with different technology. What could be added to my description ?
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OK I asked Mrs Google about difference between SSD and Flash drive , and this is what she said : What's the difference between flash and SSD storage? | PC Gamer[^] In much lesser wording: They are read / write storage devices (RAM ?) , some connected via USB... where the actual storage memory is implemented with different technology. What could be added to my description ?
The term "Flash drives" generally refer to removable drives, while SSD's refer to drives 'built-in' to the computer. Both types use solid-state devices for storage, rather than spinning magnetic media.
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OK I asked Mrs Google about difference between SSD and Flash drive , and this is what she said : What's the difference between flash and SSD storage? | PC Gamer[^] In much lesser wording: They are read / write storage devices (RAM ?) , some connected via USB... where the actual storage memory is implemented with different technology. What could be added to my description ?
SSDs typically use NAND memory that it much faster than the memory type used in USB drives.
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OK I asked Mrs Google about difference between SSD and Flash drive , and this is what she said : What's the difference between flash and SSD storage? | PC Gamer[^] In much lesser wording: They are read / write storage devices (RAM ?) , some connected via USB... where the actual storage memory is implemented with different technology. What could be added to my description ?
If I stick a laptop SSD in a USB housing... Anyway, I don't think the typical consumer cares. I know I don't. And things change so rapidly.
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If I stick a laptop SSD in a USB housing... Anyway, I don't think the typical consumer cares. I know I don't. And things change so rapidly.
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Would USB "Flash drive" be "limited" in speed by USB bus? PS I just asked as a technical curiosity question - I do not want to get into personal opinions.
The latest USB standard (3.2 Gen 2) goes as high as 10 Gb/second. The actual data rate is lower because of the protocol overhead. I doubt that the flash memory used in flash drives can keep up with that. It should be able to keep up with USB 2.0 (480 Mb/second). OTOH, even SATA SSD drives can reach speeds of 4.5 Gb/second of data. This is close to the SATA III speed (6 Gb/second), if you allow for the overhead. A PCIe or NVMe drive is even faster.
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OK I asked Mrs Google about difference between SSD and Flash drive , and this is what she said : What's the difference between flash and SSD storage? | PC Gamer[^] In much lesser wording: They are read / write storage devices (RAM ?) , some connected via USB... where the actual storage memory is implemented with different technology. What could be added to my description ?
You've thrown me by saying "(RAM?)". While at an electronic level, RAM and Flash might use the same or similar technology (I don't enough to say yes or no) SSD is definitely not "RAM" which is very specifically RANDOM ACCESS memory. As such RAM is directly accessible at a much more granular level than an SSD is (normally) accessed at. RAM doesn't have a "file system" mapped onto it, and yet (with some exceptions such as when formatting or writing boot blocks - perhaps) an SSD is normally accessed via a filing system, reading/writing "blocks" of data within a specific file. Clearly within the SSD itself, each byte is directly accessible but from an external viewpoint, it's not. I'm probably not quite right on some of the implementation details but in general, the term "SSD" is used to refer to a solid-state device giving access to data via a file system of some sort, whilst RAM is directly addressible. I think that's an important enough distinction to warrant removing any reference to RAM from the SSD / Flash discussion...
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OK I asked Mrs Google about difference between SSD and Flash drive , and this is what she said : What's the difference between flash and SSD storage? | PC Gamer[^] In much lesser wording: They are read / write storage devices (RAM ?) , some connected via USB... where the actual storage memory is implemented with different technology. What could be added to my description ?
