How does this SSD store 8TB of Data? || Inside the Engineering of Solid-State Drive Architecture

Imagine storing every single video, movie, and picture you have ever seen in your entire life on a single solid-state drive. Well, these high-end solid-state drives [30TB] can do that. But how can SSDs organize so much information? Well in this video we answer that question, and we go over the logistics involved in storing terabytes of data.

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This video is part of a series that intends to thoroughly explain how SSDs, and more specifically how 3D NAND works. These are the episodes in the series:
1) Organization of Blocks, Pages, and Memory Cells: https://youtu.be/5Mh3o886qpg
2) How is information written to a memory cell? https://youtu.be/5f2xOxRGKqk
3) How is information read from a cell? https://youtu.be/YtBysgPOKx4

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Script, Modelling, Animation, Editing- Teddy Tablante
Twitter: @teddytablante
Voice Over- Phil Lee

Table of Contents:
00:00 - Visualizing an 8TB SSD
01:25 - Flash NAND Microchips
02:59 - SSD Controller
03:38 - Memory Channel
04:22 - Example of Reading or Writing a File
05:38 - Sectors of Memory
05:58 - Translation Table
06:57 - Super Page & Super Blocks
08:16 - Other Videos on SSDs
08:37 - Sponsored Segment
09:16 - Thank You to our Patreon & YouTube Membership Sponsors.

Key Branches from this video are: Microchips, CPUs, Integrated Circuits, the other SSD videos

Erratum:

Animation built using Blender 2.90.1 https://www.blender.org/
Post with Adobe Premiere Pro

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Micheloni, Rino. Marelli, Alessia. Eshghi, Kam. (2018) Inside solid state drives (SSDs) Second edition. Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics Volume 37. Springer. [Most useful resource]

Micheloni, Rino. (2017) Solid-state-drives (SSDs) Modeling, Simulation tools & strategies. Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics Volume 58. Springer

Micheloni, Rino (2016) 3D flash memories. Springer.

Pierret, Robert F. (1996) Semiconductor Device Fundamentals. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.

Prince, Betty. (2014) Vertical 3D Memory Technologies. Wiley

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Samsung Website. Samsung 1TB Details and Specifications www.samsung.com
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