This is not the first time the President has been criticized for taking a vacation during an urgent situation. During Obama's first term in 2009, Obama addressed the Underwear Bomber situation on television from Hawaii. On the other hand, in 2012 Obama flew back to the mainland midway through his vacation in order to deal with the fiscal cliff negotiations. This year critics cited the recent Sony hack attack as a reason for the president to delay his trip.
SSD (solid-state drive) A solid-state drive (SSD) is a nonvolatile storage device that stores persistent data on solid-state flash memory. Solid-state drives actually aren't hard drives in the traditional sense of the term, as there are no moving parts involved.
mSATA, or Mini-SATA, refers to both the form factor of the SSD as well as the interface. This type of SSD is much smaller than the 2.5â drive and is a bare circuit. Typical applications for these drives are netbooks, laptops, small form factor PCs, and other devices that require a smaller footprint. M.2 SSDs are similar to mSATA drives and also come in as a bare circuit board.