Solid State Drives (SSD) Now Available in India

A couple of months back I was looking at upgrading my computer. Specifically I wanted to upgrade my disk space. While searching on the internet I stumbled upon a new technology (it is kinda old as we all use it currently) Solid State Drives. It is similar to the flash memory drives (pen drives) that we use, except that these are available in higher capacities (160GB, 190GB and so on). The advantage of this technology is

• It has no moving parts, hence no wear and tear (long lasting)


• Since it has no moving parts the seek time is almost zero. So the SDD will take very little time while saving and retrieving data (high performance).

The only disadvantage is that it is very expensive and is not available in very high capacities. On the brighter side, since it is already launched in India we can expect the prices to go down as the market for SSD opens up. Till that time I am planning to buy an internal 1TB SATA HDD ;).