On Tue, 24 May 2011, 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? A SATA SSD is different to a SATA HDD. Yes. And the OS can tell (if it wants to) that they are different. But a SATA drive is a term that encompasses both if you ask me. > I know you get some USB type SSD's, but people still refer to them as > SSD drives, and not USB drives I think we're just saying be carefuly what you say. SSD after all stands for Solid State Drive. So SATA drive (as you keep saying) sounds like the superset of HDDs and SSDs if you ask me, rather than SATA HDD which is what you're trying to say. Other people using ambiguous terms doesn't make you more right. jh