There are three important considerations that determine the usefulness of a recording hard drive, which are data transfer rate, reliability, and low operating noise. The Intel 240GB Solid State Drive doesn't just give you all three of these vital characteristics, it completely embodies them. More than just a mere 240GB hard drive, the Intel 240GB Solid State Drive has no moving parts whatsoever. That means that the physical process required by a regular hard drive to locate and read the details from a spinning cylinder is completely removed from the equation, reducing data access time to only 0.1ms.