Where an SSD differs from a mechanical drive is the lack of any moving parts. Instead of using spinning platters and actuator arms with magnets, an SSD uses NAND memory chips that require power.

The type of flash memory in a solid state drive (SSD), USB drive and memory card. NAND flash is used for storage, while NOR flash supports program execution. The NAND and NOR designations actually ...

balancing strong performance in its hard disk drive (HDD) business against headwinds in the NAND flash memory market. According to InvestingPro data, the company has demonstrated robust revenue ...

NAND is nowhere near as fast as main memory, but it's multiple orders of magnitude faster than a hard drive. While write latencies are significantly slower for NAND flash than read latencies ...

For example, having an iPod that didn’t have a spinning, unreliable hard drive was huge even if the ... the painstaking effort of removing the old NAND flash storage chip from an iPod Nano ...

NAND flash memory solutions provider Solidigm announced a multi-year extension of its deal with Broadcom Inc (NASDAQ:AVGO) on ...