What is a NAND Drive?
NAND drives are high-capacity, high-speed, solid-state flash memory drives. Thanks to new advances in technology, these drives have been chosen to become the latest drive preference for laptop computers (hopefully in the near future). When comparing the NAND to other types of flash memory, NAND drives have several noteworthy advantages. The term “NAND” refers to the architecture of the chip which differs it from NOR (NOT OR) flash memory. NOR flash memory is most widely used in devices in which small programs are executed in place rather than written to Random Access Memory (RAM). PDAs, cell phones, and similar devices function with the help of NOR flash memory. NOR flash memory is considered to be ideal for applications that require less memory and perform most of the work on unchanging code (for example, boot directions or operating systems). However, for changing data, NAND drives are superior to NOR flash memory. The chip is designed to allow more memory to be included into the sam
