What is the deal with10,000ft MSL & Solid State Drives?
• Solid State Drives (SSD’s) are here! No longer are high capacity tablets limited to spinning hard drives! SSD is available in all FlightPrep EFB systems. • Regular hard drives utilize a record player like mechanism which relies on a small cushion of air to run dependably. The lower pressure at altitudes above 10,000 feet may present major reliability issues. • There is nothing written that says that 10K is the magic number when it comes to crashing a hard drive. 10K is simply the upper limit of the manufacturers testing envelope. That means 10,000 for one drive and maybe 15,000 for another. • In a larger scale, this is what happens when the hard drive crashes: Think of the Hard drive surface as an extremely long runway, and the reading head is a 747 flying at 300kts about 2 inches off of the ground. Now, take away that 2 inches and you see what can happen inside your PC at unpressurized altitudes! • SSD’s do not have these issues because there are no moving parts inside of the hard d
