To understand how and why SSDs are different from spinning discs, we need to discuss hard drives. A hard drive stores data on a series of spinning magnetic disks called platters. This diagram shows an ...

Here at ExtremeTech, we've often discussed the difference between different types of NAND structures -- vertical NAND versus planar, or multi-level cell (MLC) versus triple-level cells (TLC) and ...

Almost a year ago, The Tech Report set out to answer a question: Exactly how much hammering could modern SSDs take? The site put together a comprehensive stress test that would hammer the drives with ...

The first generation of solid-state drives (SSD) introduced in PCs last year failed to live up to the hype. Though praised for using less power and generating less heat than conventional hard disk ...