Although earlier designs of the semi conductor, flash storage based SSD technology existed, things changed for good in 2008 with the Intel X25 M: the consumer SSD that started it all. Since then, we have SATA, M.2 NVMe, Gen 4, and even Gen 5 SSDs offering transfer speeds up to a massive 14,000 MB per second today. The rate of progress has been something to behold. Everybody wants the best for their PC. It wasnt long before HDDs were abandoned in favor of SSDs: the new, blazing fast storage ch
