What is the most common media used in Solid State Disks (SSDs)?
The most common media in use today for creating solid state disks is Flash ROMs with some sort of BIOS extension (for bootable media) or installable device driver (for non-bootable data storage media). Most manufacturers provide a BIOS extension that will allow the user to use the standard DOS/Windows commands and file structure. Assuming the designer is using DOS, for example, the steps would be as follows: To make a bootable MS-DOS/Windows device: Type Format /s driveletter : and this will create an MS-DOS file structure as well as transfer the operating system to the SSD. To make a non-bootable device: Type Format driveletter : Notice that the /s command line switch is not used in this case so the Operating System is not copied onto the SSD. Answer contributed by Michael Peat at INSIDE Technology USA, Inc. . Return to the table of contents.
