Solid State Drives feature NAND flash mounted on a circuit boards unlike hard drives which have moving parts making HDDs more susceptible to damage in portable devices.

Because they have up to 100x more throughput than 15K RPM spinning hard drive disks, SSDs allow more to get done in less time for a state-of-the-art computing experience. Boot up quicker, open applications in half the time, and transfer files faster than you thought possible.

Systems with SSDs feel snappier and more responsive thanks to their incredibly fast access latencies. While HDDs are fastest when the data you want is in the vicinity of the read/write heads, all parts of a SSD are accessed the same way…fast.