Booting from a solid state drive (SSD) is much faster than the traditional hard disk drives and this is just one of the many reasons that the SSD’s have become popular in consumer devices. To assist developers of these products, one of our partners Global Unichip (GUC) has developed an SSD reference platform for mobile applications such as netbooks, mobile internet devices (MIDs) and high-speed pen drives. The connection to the netbook is made via the high performance SATA bus as shown below.

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