SSDs and Choices for External Connections for External Drives and Peripherals
Solid State Drives are getting more affordable and mainstream
Solid State Drive or SSD is a storage device that has no movable parts.
It is made up of RAM memory chips and is faster that the traditional hard drive (which has mechanical moving platters and is slower than SSD and uses more energy)
SSDs can be used in high altitudes like up in the mountains where regular hard drives might not work.
You can walk around with a laptop with and SSD running while you can't do that with a laptop with a hard drive without adverse effects.
Sudden motion won't hurt a SSD but will damage a hard drive.-------------------------Benefits of SSD:
fast
energy efficient
increased battery life on laptops
least heat
more durable due to no movable parts---------------------------A 240GB SSD can be had for under $100.
A 120GB SSD can be had for under $70.
I bought a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD for $138 on Black Friday.
SSDs are getting cheaper in price and by next year, 1TB SSDs will be under $199.
if you put an SSD in an external case, what are your choices for connection?
Let's talk about connection types:
if you put an SSD in an external case, what are your choices for connection?
Let's talk about connection types:
USB: stands for Universal Serial Bus and is a standard founded by Intel in the 1990s; a popular choice for connecting peripherals, first made popular by Apple Inc.
There is:
USB 1.1 -- the oldest,
low speed 1.5 Mbps
full speed 12 Mpbs
is good for computer mice or other input devices, not recommended as a connection for external hard drives or external CD/DVD drives because it is too slow.
USB 2.0 -- backward compatible with USB 1.1 devices
full speed 12 Mbps
hi speed 480 Mbps
is good for external hard drives and external CD/DVD/Bluray drives-- make sure it says "hi speed"
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USB 3.0-- is backwards compatible with older USB standards
full speed 12 Mbps
hi speed 480 Mbps
super speed 5Gbps
is the fastest USB standard and is great for external DVD and Blu Ray drives due to the super speed 5Gbps bandwidth.
USB 3.0 would be the best choice for external SSD.
Firewire: an Apple Inc. popular connector standard than is considered a legacy standard now, replaced by USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt.
Firewire 400:
400 Mpbs
is faster than USB 2.0 in real time application because firewire isn't googled down by the numbers of peripherals on the bus unlike USB, which slows down depending on the number of USB devices connected to the USB bus.
Good for external hard drives and CD/DVD drives, video equipment and audio equipment.
FireWire 800
800 Mbps
is backwards compatible with Firewire 400 devices but needs a firewire 800 to 400 converter plug.
Great for external hard drives and CD/DVD/Blu ray drives video equipment and audio equipment.
Thunderbolt: is a new standard co-create by Intel Corp. and Apple Inc.
Thunderbolt 1:
10Gbps throughput
is pricey
great for external hard drives, cd/dvd/blu ray and can be used with external graphics cards and house PCI Express expansion cards with external chassis.
for information on how to use thunderbolt as a solution for External Graphics Cards on Macs, PC see
this blog :
Thunderbolt 2:
20Gbps throughput
is very pricey
and is the fastest and most expensive choice for external connection port for external hard drives, cd/dvd/blu ray, external PCI Express expansion and external graphics cards.
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