When Solid State Drives (SSD) first popped up on the scene of consumers, they were viewed as overpriced, and not bringing that much benefits or speed to the table. After all, SSDs were marketed as only being “2x-3x” faster than a Hard Disk Drive (HDD), those thingies with spinning platters. But they were marketed horribly wrong, because their speed boost over a HDD was magnitudes higher.
