Owing to its exposed location on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada, Nevada City receives moderate to heavy rainfall for California at 59 inches (1.5 m), though its climate is otherwise fairly typical for the state, being classified as Mediterranean (Csa/Csb).
An mSATA drive is a solid state drive that has a very small form factor. It looks like a large integrated circuit, it's basically an SSD without the 2.5 housing. It originally was a relatively small size, typically 16 GB or 32 GB, and was used to cache the hard drive.
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.