S.S.D.

¹ American  

abbreviation

1. Doctor of Sacred Scripture.

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SSD ² American  

abbreviation

Computers.

1. solid-state drive: a memory-based storage device containing semiconductor chips.

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SSD British  

abbreviation

1. Social Services Department

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Etymology

Origin of S.S.D.¹

From Latin Sacrae Scrīptūrae Doctor

Origin of SSD¹

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

“Replacing a hard drive with a S.S.D. is like going from driving an old VW bug to driving a Ferrari,” he said.

From New York Times

Solid-state drives, or S.S.D., which are comprised of microchips and have no moving parts, easily cut the boot time in half.

From New York Times

“This caused a system bottleneck that S.S.D.’s solved, so users could get more out of their microprocessor investment.”

From New York Times

“I was impressed with the responsiveness of the S.S.D. in my wife’s MacBook Air, so I was willing to sacrifice capacity for performance,” he said, particularly when he had a 1.5 terabyte network-attached storage device and he used the cloud storage service, DropBox.

From New York Times

The celebration was premature: before they had driven a single block, a pair of East German S.S.D.

From Time Magazine Archive