Imagine when copying and accessing data on thumb or flash drives first appeared on the scene, and how this new technology was a fad, as it continues to be today. The capacity and quicker access time, for these drives, grew tremendously with leaps and bounds.
Hackers' easily stored malicious executables on these drives that threatened large networks inclusive of WAN, MAN, and even government agencies. Many of the high-end corporations and businesses started blocking all of the Universal Serial Bus ports on all of their systems for valid security reasons.
Times change, and solid state drives or SSDs emerged connecting via SATA port, which for the most part, remained internal and locked in steel cases that help in securing data. They started out small and have no spinning platters such as that of a hard disk drive or HDD. The drive capacity hasn't increased that much on them, but they remain dense and small.
In a way, the SSD originally evolved from the flash drive. There are no moving parts inside and they are comparably similar to accessing volatile random access memory, which is done quickly and silently without the whirr of the stacked metallic disks and hyperactive movement of the read-write heads of a hard drive. The only difference is that the memory access from a SSD is non-capricious.
So here I am with information technology degrees and a few computer certifications trying to keep up to speed, and here comes my son, who I consider a genius, without any formal training such as I have. He just completed a gaming computer build whereby a reboot back to a working desktop takes less than 30 seconds by way of a SSD. I stood there with my mouth wide open and in awe. Of course, we are partners in an information technology business and just starting out, but noted, those born into technology with a smart phone in hand seem to get it, more appropriately and faster, than old school techs like me.
Thinking of these new drives and the bigger picture, I picture a rack mounted server unit with long rows of compact, small, and superfast access SSDs thus forming smaller yet more powerful data centers all around the world. Futuristic as it may seem, sharing data is coming into supersonic speeds.
I stop and realize of a technology that has been around for a while in that of fiber optics knowingly whereby data goes at the speed of light. Keeping the data solidly together at that speed is another story.
Paul Wylie at http://arhawg.com/ based in Arkadelphia, Arkansas along with my son just opened an technology business. We repair computers, mobile, network and other technical hardware and Web design. Since we just started out, there are discounts. We will go anywhere in the world to work but only with paid accommodations and all meals for three people and a dog.
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