<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 24, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font><br><br>But don't you think that a SSD, or rather Solid State Drive, would<br>still be seen as a different type of drive than a SATA drive, even<br>though they share the same type of bus & connector + power cable?<br><br>I know you get some USB type SSD's, but people still refer to them as<br>SSD drives, and not USB drives<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Depends on what level you are looking. Generically, it is a sequence of blocks, just like a rotating hard drive appears. Proper ID commands can find out more detailed information on it.</div><div><br></div><div>Some computers, like the Macbook Air, have SSD but it is NOT SATA. It is plugged into an expansion slot. I have also seen other SSDs that plug into PCI Express slots.</div></body></html>