On May 24, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:

But don't you think that a SSD, or rather Solid State Drive, would
still be seen as a different type of drive than a SATA drive, even
though they share the same type of bus & connector + power cable?

I know you get some USB type SSD's, but people still refer to them as
SSD drives, and not USB drives

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.

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.