Solid state drives, or SDDs, have started appearing in laptops for a while now, being praised for releasing less heat, thus wearing the battery less. Also, SDDs are faster when working with large files, the hard not spinning and being able to process its memory better and also to store it more efficiently.

SanDisk announced on Tuesday that will introduce a new flash based memory management that will help SDDs overcome their weaknesses. The new flash memory management will be called ExtremeFFS and will help SDDs write files approximately 100 times faster than they can do now. The reason for which ExtremeFFS will be so helpful is because it will disable the erasing and rewriting nearby stored data.

SanDisk announced that Extreme FFs will be launched next year along with their new SDDs and this would start a real revolution in how computers are looked at, and how memory is used. The current SDDs that can be found in some notebooks are indeed faster at writing large files, but are very slow at writing temporary data, proving inferior to a classical, mechanical hard drive. According to some statistics, the SDDs that were launched last year were writing information at about 1, 000 revolutions per minute, while the slowest mechanical hard drive performs at 5, 400 revolution per minute.

Solid State drives are the latest in hard drive technologies and they are improving more and more as time goes by. It won’t be any surprise if, at some moment, mechanical, spinning hard drives will become obsolete.