What is an SSD?
Solid State Drive. An SSD is a solid state drive that employs flash memory and used for all of your data storage needs. Compared to a traditional mechanical hard disk drive (HDD), SSDs do not have moving parts, generate less heat, use less power, and offer higher performance.

With transfer speeds far superior to mechanical hard disk drives (HDD), SSD benefits include: decreased system boot time, more efficient multi-tasking, and faster system responsiveness. SSDs offer significant performance improvements when replacing your current system’s hard drive (HDD), greater shock resistance, reduced power consumption, and longer battery life for laptop applications.

No, they are generally about the same. The only difference is form factor.

Yes, as long as your host computer has at least two available interface ports. The interface type will depend on the host computer and SSD. Refer to your motherboard documentation for additional information.

Our SSDs function independently of the host computer's operating system.

Yes, please follow the instructions provided by your OS to create a bootable system drive.

The host interface is how your SSD will connect with your host computer. Most external SSDs connect via USB or Thunderbolt III, while internal SSDs connect via SATA III or PCIe interfaces. For additional information on your host computer's host interface, please refer to the host computer's motherboard documentation.

Serial ATA. This is an interface between the SSD and the host computer. Our SSDs use the current generation SATA III, which is an 6 Gb/s backwards compatible interface. Many PCs utilize this interface as it became popular in the early 2000s and many PCs are still made with this interface today.

Our 2.5" SATA 3 SSDs feature a 7mm high form factor compatible with most systems equipped with 3.5" or 2.5" hard drives (HDD). Depending on your installation, you may need an adapter bracket. Check your system documentation for additional information.

S.M.A.R.T., an acronym for Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology, is an open standard that allows a hard disk drive to automatically detect its health and report potential failures. When a failure is recorded by S.M.A.R.T., users can choose to replace the drive to prevent unexpected outage or data loss. Moreover, S.M.A.R.T. can inform users of impending failures while there is still time to perform proactive actions, such as copy data to another device. S.M.A.R.T. is a feature of our SSDs.

Terabytes Written (TBW) is defined as the total amount of data in terabytes that can be written to a SSD before the SSD may begin to become unreliable. The SSD’s remaining life metric determines remaining SSD life span by comparing the SSD’s maximum TBW rating to actual terabytes written. Verbatim SSDs covered by this warranty have maximum TBW ratings that can be accessed on the respective product specification sheets located at www.verbatim.com. The SSD’s remaining life begins at 100% and will decrease to zero (0%) as the end user utilizes the SSD.

Mean Time Between Failures. An electronics industry metric that predicts elapsed time between inherent failures of a mechanical or electronic system, during normal system operation.

Input/Output Operations per Second. This is an industry standard metric that measures the random read/write performance of simultaneous inputs/outputs based using a 4k block size. The higher the IOPS the better the performance.

Deer Hunter offers a Limited Three Year Warranty up to the Terabytes Written (TBW) rating for our internal SSDs.

The controller is an embedded device that acts like a processor that executes firmware-level software for the SSD. The controller model varies depending on the SSD. Controllers control read/write operations, bad block management, wear leveling, garbage collection, and other SSD operations.

Our SSDs are intended for use in client PC applications, and are not intended for server environments.