Google Inc. said today that the upcoming release of its new Google Chrome operating system will not support products hard disk drives in favor of solid state drives (SSD).
Google’s vice president of product management, Sundar Pichai, made the statement during a press event to announce features of its first operating system. Pichai said the new OS will support only SSDs because that is key to it getting a seven-second boot time on PCs.
“We want Google Chrome OS to be blazingly fast,” Pichai said. “From the time you press boot, you want it to be like a TV. In addition to making the boot time fast, we want the end-to-end experience to be fast.”
