1. Katie Hintze

2.  A non-volatile storage device that stores digitally encoded data  Introduced in 1956  Long-term persistent storage

3.  An SSD emulates a hard disk drive interface  Flash Memory  Two Types:  SLC  MLC

4. SLCMLC  Faster  Longer Life Span  Cost more  Less Expensive  Smaller Life Span  Speedy throughput and access times SLC NAND flash MLC NAND flash Random Read 25 µs50 µs Erase 2ms per block Programming 250 µs900 µs

6. Cell Page Block

7.  Amount of data written a day  20 GB  MLC: 100GB

8.  Faster  Quieter  Less Power Consumption  Won’t loose data

10.  Performance  Power  Price

11. http://www.anandtech.com/show/2614/1 Intel X25-M SSD: Intel Delivers One of the World's Fastest Drives by Anand Lal Shimpi