{"id":2464,"date":"2012-02-09T13:14:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T13:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/solid-state-drive-2\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T15:30:10","slug":"solid-state-drive-2","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/2296\/solid-state-drive-ssd","title":{"rendered":"Solid State Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_solid_state_drive_mean\">What Does Solid State Drive Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A solid state drive (SSD) is an electronic storage drive built on solid state architecture. SSDs are built with NAND and NOR flash memory to store non-volatile data and dynamic random access memory (DRAM). 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