



A 2.5-inch internal solid state drive, or SSD, is superior in just about every way to a 2.5-inch internal hard disk drive, or HDD. The SSD requires less power, generates less heat and is quieter, faster, more reliable and more durable. It's also much more expensive.


mSATA is a small form factor flash storage device which is used like a hard disk drive in a host computer system. ... Both the SATA-IO Group and JEDEC define and publish standards for the mSATA form factor. The mSATA SSD drive is relatively small at 50.8mm x 29.85mm and delivers a lot of capacity in this small footprint