SSDs to Find a Place in Music Players
Solid State Drives or SSDs are one of the most advanced secondary storage technologies available nowadays. It’s completely based on NAND flash storage and does not equip any mechanical parts. As a result there are no more chances of drive crashes due to shocks, sudden drops and bumps. The drives also have the same Serial ATA interface as the legacy hard drives, in addition to offering speedy data read/write operations.
All these benefits certainly attract lots of people, but till now the SSD usage is limited to portable computers only, with computer only models like the OCZ Vertex SATA II SSD 30GB. However according to market research and expert’s opinions the SSDs will enjoy a much larger market share by 2012. This is because the popular portable media player makers like Apple and Microsoft are considering these enhanced drives to offer storage solutions for their music players like the Microsoft Zune. This will not only give the companies all the associated benefits but will also allow them to further shrink the size and weight of the PMPs.
The existing non-SSD Flash storage technology will not be totally replaced because of the low-cost benefit associated with it but will loose some portion of the market once the NAND flash (SSD storage) is finds a place in the music player’s casing.
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