[knarf]

What’s an SSD for us dummies?

[Tarantulas]

I suspect it stands for Solid State Drive but I have no idea what “SLD” means.

I have an 8 GB thumb drive. Can I set up my PC to use that at bootup time?

[Mr. Jazzy]

SSD = Solid State Disk or Drive. Fast like RAM in your computer and no moving parts. Also, rather pricey per gigabyte. At this point, they are not a reliable as the standard disk drive, but they are getting better.

[Neidermeyer]

What’s an SSD for us dummies?
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“solid state device” ,, electronic memory ... faster than magnetic memory as there is no wait for rotation or seek.. I had SSD back in 1982 ,, StorageTEK SSD “drum” units attached to a IBM 3081 as paging devices.

[Red Badger]

Solid State Drive......no moving parts.........