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  2. Solid-state drive - Wikipedia

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    Every SSD includes a controller, which manages the data flow between the NAND memory and the host computer. The controller is an embedded processor that runs firmware to optimize performance, managing data, and ensuring data integrity.

  3. Solid-state storage - Wikipedia

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    A solid-state drive (SSD) provides secondary storage for relatively complex systems including personal computers, embedded systems, portable devices, large servers and network-attached storage (NAS). To satisfy such a wide range of uses, SSDs are produced with various features, capacities, interfaces and physical sizes and layouts. [4]

  4. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    CAD—Computer-aided design; CAE—Computer-aided engineering; CAID—Computer-aided industrial design; CAI—Computer-aided instruction; CAM—Computer-aided manufacturing; CAP—Consistency availability partition tolerance (theorem) CAPTCHA—Completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart; CAT—Computer-aided ...

  5. Solid-state electronics - Wikipedia

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    The term solid-state became popular at the beginning of the semiconductor era in the 1960s to distinguish this new technology. A semiconductor device works by controlling an electric current consisting of electrons or holes moving within a solid crystalline piece of semiconducting material such as silicon, while the thermionic vacuum tubes it replaced worked by controlling a current of ...

  6. Mount (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Mounting is a process by which a computer's operating system makes files and directories on a storage device (such as hard drive, CD-ROM, or network share) available for users to access via the computer's file system.

  7. External storage - Wikipedia

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    Today the term external storage most commonly applies to those storage devices external to a personal computer. [5] The terms refer to any storage external to the computer. Storage as distinct from memory in the early days of computing was always external to the computer as for example in the punched card devices and media. Today storage ...

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  9. Disk buffer - Wikipedia

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    In computer storage, a disk buffer (often ambiguously called a disk cache or a cache buffer) is the embedded memory in a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD) acting as a buffer between the rest of the computer and the physical hard disk platter or flash memory that is used for storage. [1]