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Welcome Back to the Clear-Cloud
Mobile-Device-Broker-Liquidation Training Platform - all the essentials needed to fully participate as a Partner-Affiliate
on the Clear-Cloud Network.
Here we explore the SSD profit potentialities for the Mobile Device Broker,
in selling these Mobile Device add-ons, and installing them too.
Here are some exciting training_mods on cloud based computing, mobile cloud computing.
And Mobile Devices - laptops, netbooks, Blackberrys, Portable Media Players, smartphones, GPS devices, streaming video,
3g and 4g wireless, and Blu-Ray optical drives....and a lot of YouTube informative videos too!
SSD
SSD - Solid State Drives...........a NON-MECHANICAL form of
memory, uses flash memory - is being used in more and more of the Notebooks and Tablets
and MIDs and
handhelds you'll receive from the Vendors for resale. Since it is not mechanical, like the
"traditional" hard drive, and even a little faster than HDDs, then it will
be in more Netbooks
coming off the Asian
factory lines.
SSD - Solid State Drives...........you'll see more and more of this in
your Broker lot-batchs from the IT Asset Disposal pipeline.
SSD drives
are a type of Flash memory (see image below)......unlike a hard drive, there are NO moving parts...as a Mobile Computing
Pro/Vendors Rep-Netbooks,
you need to at least know some of the basics of these increasingly pervasive memory modules.
Some
of your buyers will not have a clue what is a SSD memory module...others won’t care.......however you need to
know in order to make money in this new Mobile Computing field.....'cause they are a little more expensive,
BUT you'll see that more
people want them in a Netbook-Notebook, 'cause they're faster and lighter and MUCH less likely to experience failure...'cause:
THEY HAVE
NO MOVING PARTS!
What are SSD and HDD? SSD = solid state
storage..............HDD stands for hard disk drive.
If you own a computer,
and who doesn't these days,
you'll likely be familiar with HDDs. see below................
They consist of stacked platters with magnetic surfaces.
The platters rotate at very high
speeds.
Read/write
heads in the drive mechanism either
read or write data to the disk. SSD stands for solid state disk (or solid state disk drive).
The name comes from a term in the electronics industry that refers to circuitry built (at the factories) entirely of semiconductors. Below
we see a 64 GB Flash drive.
The intelligent and forward
thing Mfgr Rep/Mobile Computing Pro will be cognizant of
the new developments in Netbooks-Notebooks with NO HDD
and instead an SSD...or, the newer models with both SSD and HHD...
Remember - you have to know MORE than your
buyers...to make decent money in this fast moving field of
Mobile Computing.....
describe SSDs as follows: the storage medium is not magnetic (like a hard disk) or optical
(like a DVD-CD, see below)
but solid state semiconductor such as battery
backed RAM, EPROM or other electrically erasable RAM-like chip. Consider the mechanics of a typical HDD and you'll understand
why. With all of those moving parts, wear and tear is inevitable. Why?
is the question many of us are often asked, as to why SSD are a "big thing.." read on to see...then you decide...ARE they a "big thing"...or,
not a very "big" thing....
..........remember...hard
drive speeds/storage capacities do
continue to "guage up" every 12 months or so....
Some experts estimate HDD lifespan to be about 3 years.
In the context
of PC drives, the term SSD
refers to the fact that storage is done through semiconductors rather than the magnetic
media
used
on a hard drive. Because they do not rely on spinning platters, SSD drives contain no moving parts.
The intelligent and forward
thing Mfgr Rep/Mobile Computing Pro will be cognizant of
the new developments in Netbooks-Notebooks with NO HDD
and instead an SSD...or, the newer models with both SSD and HHD...
Remember - you have to know MORE than your
buyers...to make decent money in this fast moving field of
Mobile Computing.....
We describe
SSDs as follows: the storage medium is not magnetic (like a hard disk) or optical
(like a DVD-CD, see below)
but solid state semiconductor such as battery
backed RAM, EPROM or other electrically
erasable RAM-like chip.
Consider the mechanics
of a typical HDD and you'll understand why. With all of those moving parts, wear and tear is inevitable. Why? is the question we
are often asked, as to why SSD are a "big thing.."
read on to see...then you decide...ARE they a "big thing"...or, not a very "big" thing....
remember...hard drive speeds/storage
capacities do
continue to "guage up" every 12 months or so....
Some experts estimate HDD lifespan to be about 3 years.
On the other hand,
SSD drives can last up to ten years, an important consideration when you are
investing a significant sum in your digital
signage player. Typical SSD Flash chips
have around 300,000 write
cycles (the number of times data can be copied to them), but some
have up to one million write cycles.
Most chips also include a "wear-leveling" algorithm that balances the
storage across all of the blocks in the drive.
Response time is another area where HDD
and SSD differ.
When data is retrieved from a hard disk drive (see close-up below), the motor needs to
start so the platters can
spin and the
heads can read
the data. All of those mechanics take time,
which makes data "getting "from an HDD much slower than
from an SSD.
SSD 4GB
With their many tiny
moving parts, hard drives are also very fragile.
There is a higher risk of mechanical breakdown in digital players using HDD, and a
small glitch is all it takes to bring
down an entire digital network. Although the technology is superior, users of digital players may find the cost of SSD something of an issue. SSD drives
are more expensive than HDD, even when you factor in
the costs of repairing and replacing hard disk drives.
As with all computer technology, new efficiencies are being
developed to lower the cost of SSD and make
it more affordable for retailers of all sizes.
When the economics become more manageable, SSD is expected to dominate the
market for digital signage players
because of its longer life span and better reliability.
While SSDs are seeing interest from distribution agents
across USA, (and everyone else) these days, it's way too early to shovel the dirt over the classic spinning-disk
hard disk drive technology, as many long term PC techs say. As a new to-be Mobile
Pro-Registered Rep,
you
need to know a couple of reasons: capacity and price per GB.
SSD drives are more EXPENSIVE than HDDs
See image below it show hard drive vs SSD.
EVEN FOR ADVANCED VENDORS THAT ARE BUILDING THE LATEST
NETBOOKS-NOTEBOOKS!
View this well done, and focused and informative
YouTube video...how to install
SSD in a laptop...to replace a hard drive...as a soon-to-be
Registered Mobile-Device Broker
& Liquidation Specialist, and Mobile Computing Pro, can do this...
for your clients...make
sure you get paid...charge around $35...to keep the customer happy, and
"In our computer dependent
world, we are always on the
lookout
for the next "big thing". Often times it has been
a new microprocessor from Intel or AMD. However, in recent years,
the microprocessor is often not the limiting factor
with computer performance.
While
hard-drive memory capacities have increased significantly in recent years, the access speed has remained relatively constant.
It's an issue/problem fundamental to the technology.
The hard-drive is mechanical,
and efforts to improve speed have been receiving diminishing returns.
A technology that is competing with the conventional hard-drive (HDD) is the solid-state
drive (SSD).
An SSD is not mechanical, it is based on "flash memory", the same computer chip technology
used to store pictures with your digital camera.
An SSD drive was a novelty only 3 years ago, but no longer.
And, as we see, they are
“coming on big” in the area of (especially) Laptops, Notebooks, Tablet PCs.
An SSD can outperform conventional mechanical
hard drives because it is 4X smaller and lighter, is up
to 50X faster, is more reliable because there are no moving
parts, produces less heat, and uses less power.
SSD drive memory capacity has improved and 250 gigabyte SSD drives
are now available. Currently, the drawback is price.
SSD Drives are still more expensive than conventional HDD. An SSD Drive now costs about $2 per gigabyte
while a HDD drive costs
less than $1 per gigabyte. The price of an SSD continues to improve (SSD drives once sold
for more than $25 per gigabyte), and with
manufacturing volumes anticipated, the price difference should be further
reduced.
Flash memory
is capable of a finite number of rewrites to each memory cell
(as
are conventional hard drives). Significant improvements in the technology have been made in recent years.
In addition,
Intel developed "load leveling". This technique ensures that all of the memory cells on the SSD receive a similar
workload.
Most SSD manufacturers now utilize comparable techniques. An SSD should last 10 years or more for the
average user.
The
primary reason for the rosy future of SSD is access speed. A fast conventional HDD has access times equal to about 5 milliseconds.
It sounds fast, but when the microprocessor is capable of millions of instructions per second (MIPS), 5 milliseconds
is a bottleneck.
SSD can have as little as 100 microsecond access time (50X faster).
An important issue when trying to utilize this SSD speed capability is
the potential bottleneck caused by the interface.
There are 3 common interfaces used today with SSD drives.
The SATA interface is currently the
most common interface used for conventional HDD, but a SATA interface has been limited in total throughput, both
send and receive, to about 3 Gbps. This can be too slow for SSD, causing performance disruptions. Some SSD drives are capable
of over 5 Gbps throughput."
SAS
(see below) is another interface alternative. SAS is a point-to-point technology
with at least four channels. Each channel is capable
of throughput of 3 Gbps in each direction (a total of 6 Gbps per channel).
It is possible to maximize the performance advantage of the
SSD technology with careful selection
of the appropriate interface.
Sun Microsystems Endorses SSD
Sun Microsystems, a leading maker of engineering workstations (very high performance computers),
is predictably committing strongly to SSD technology.
Sun
can be seen as a bellwether for the PC industry.
If Sun endorses the technology at the current price, as the prices
reduce, the technology would logically be utilized by the mainstream PC user.
This pattern of adoption has been
seen for other new technologies.
Sun
has said it is adding SSD technology to its systems to increase their performance for I/O intensive applications.
Late last year, Sun introduced SSD in its Amber Road product line. Amber Road is Sun's new line of data storage system.
The Amber Road products are selling exceptionally well.
Raymond Austin, group manager for senior product management at Sun, recently told me:
“SSD technology
helps customers achieve up to 65 times faster response times, up to eight times better
throughput and up to 38
percent less power consumption than servers with traditional spinning hard disk drives.”
An SSD drive will be more tolerant for harsh operating
environments and will be more reliable. Computers utilizing SSD drives will experience faster
application load
times and better overall performance. An SSD drive can emulate a traditional mechanical hard disk drive (HDD).
This
makes replacing the traditional HDD for an SSD in your current system less complicated. A SSD is probably in your future,
the only question is when.
As a soon-to-be Registered Mobile Device Broker and Liquidation Specialist,
you’ll
be seeing SSD in a lot of the batches that are forwarded to you for sale…and you’ll probably
see
a lot of your clients/customers “demanding” SSD too!
