How do SSDs Work? | How does your Smartphone store data? | Insanely Complex Nanoscopic Structures!
Have you ever wondered how your smartphone can store countless pictures, songs, or videos? Or, have you wondered when you download a podcast to your smartphone, where does it actually get stored? In this video, we will open up your smartphone and take a look at the inside of the memory storage microchip. This same microchip is also used to store data in solid-state drives, or SSDs in your computer, in tablets, and inside flash drives. The technology is called VNAND or V-NAND, and it's incredible how engineers were able to fit such an insane amount of memory storage capacity in such a small space.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro into SSDs
2:06 - Example of Saving a Picture
4:17 - Pixel Calculations
5:19 - Single Memory Cell
7:59 - Vertical Strings and Pages
10:34 - Control Gates of VNAND
12:00 - Calculations of Example Array
13:09 - True size of an SSD microchip
14:50 - Overall chip in an SSD
16:07 - Outro
16:32 - Creator's comments
16:54 - Future Episodes
This video is part of a series that intends to thoroughly explain how SSDs, and more specifically how VNAND works. These are the episodes in the series:
1) [18min] Overview on how SSDs / VNAND / Smartphone storage works.
2) [3min] Quick/Abridged episode of the overview
3) How charge trap flash works. (details on a single memory cell)
4) How strings of memory cells work (details on a stack of memory cells)
5) How a massive array of memory cells are organized. (Terabit Cell Array Transistor, TCAT)
6) How is VNAND manufactured?
7) Possible episode on an analogy using a city & apartments to explain VNAND.
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.
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.
How do SSDs Work? How to fit 3 WEEKS of TV in a microchip the size of a dime!! Explained in 3min.
Have you spent the last 3 weeks binging TV shows? How do microchips inside your smartphone, laptop, or table store 3 weeks [1 Terabyte] of information in a space the size of a dime?
This video is part of a series that intends to thoroughly explain how SSDs, and more specifically how VNAND works. These are the episodes in the series:
1) [18min] Overview on how SSDs / VNAND / Smartphone storage works.
2) [3min] Quick/Abridged episode of the overview
3) How charge trap flash works. (details on a single memory cell)
4) How strings of memory cells work (details on a stack of memory cells)
5) How a massive array of memory cells are organized. (Terabit Cell Array Transistor, TCAT)
6) How is VNAND manufactured?
7) Possible episode on an analogy using a city & apartments to explain VNAND.
