mSATA Solid State Drives

Give Your Computer More Space With mSATA

Storage space is important, especially at a time when you depend mostly on technology to store your memories from photographs to videos, and even music you created 10 years back. mSATA, available on eBay, offers easy expansion at a time when all you need is more space.

Solid-state drivers come in two kinds: the ordinary-sized SATA SSD and the mSATA. The former follows the same size and form of the traditional hard disk drive. It was designed to replace your computer's hard disk drive and upgrade it into an SSD. mSATA SSD is a mobile version, as it can easily be plugged into a laptop or computer without the need for attaching additional wires/cables. Usually, laptops that support mSATA expansion come with a slot where you can easily slide it in, configure it, and start using it as a storage drive.

mSATA was designed as an alternative when adding more storage memory for your computer. It is commonly offered as an option for laptop computers, as these devices are harder to open. Aside from laptops, mSATA is mostly found on tablet computers and netbooks. This storage expansion option comes in a smaller form factor compared to traditional HDD and SSD. When compared to HDD and SATA SSD, mSATA offers the following benefits:

• Smaller form factor: It usually comes in the size of a credit card.
• Low power consumption: Most mSATA consumes about less 0.01 watts of energy.
• Shock-resistant: Unlike hard disk drives, you are more assured your data is safe when your device is dropped.
• Faster boot-up and shutdown times: SSD in general can boot up any operating system in less than a minute, unlike hard disk drives.

Hard disk drives (HDD) and SSD each have its own set of advantages. HDD works by storing your information and other files into a metal platter with a magnetic coating. There is a read/writer arm responsible for retrieving the data to access it on an HDD. A solid-state drive practically does everything an HDD does. Its only difference or advantage from an HDD is that it typically uses faster and more reliable interconnected flash memory chips to store and retrieve your data. Regarding booting time, SSD overpowers HDD as it capable of doing so in just seconds.