Why is USB-sticks so much slower than Solid State Drives?
- by Jonas
From what I understand, USB flash memory and Solid State Drives are based on similar technologies, NAND flash memory.
But USB-sticks is usually quite slow with a read and write speed of 5-10MB per second while Solid State Drives usually is very fast, usually 100-570MB per second.
Why are Solid State Drives so much faster than USB-sticks? And why isn't USB-sticks faster than 5-10MB per second?
Is it simply that SSD-drives uses parallel access to the NAND flash memory or are there other reasons?