Solid State Drives are the new way to backup. There are so many advantages to Solid State Drives compared to External Hard Drives and Secure Digital Cards. SSD’s don’t require a spin up so it usually takes less time to start up. Also the SSD has no moving parts unlike Hard Drives so Solid States are completely silent. And now you can get Solid State Drives in all different capacities depending on the amount of space you need. And now you can get SSDs from many manufactures like Intel, Cavalry, Lexar, OCZ, Imation, Kingston and many more.