The Engineering Puzzle of Storing Trillions of Bits in your Smartphone / SSD using Quantum Mechanics

It's a puzzle as to how your smartphone or the solid-state drive in your laptop can store gigabytes to terabytes of data by the click of a button!  It's amazing that your devices work flawlessly, and the information doesn't leak out.  In this video, we'll learn how scientists and engineers use quantum mechanics to store this information reliably.  We'll take a look on the inside of the 3D NAND technology, and see an application of quantum mechanics- specifically quantum tunneling.

0:35 - Where is the storage microchip in your Smartphone?

1:12 - Inside the memory storage microchip.

2:08 - Exploring the walls of the charge trap.

3:00 - Writing information to a memory cell.

3:48 - How Quantum Mechanics is applied to writing to a memory cell.

5:30 - Dimensions of a memory cell.

6:24 - Memory cells DO lose their data... over time.

6:49 - Wrapping up

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.

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 NAND Flash Work? Reading from TLC : Triple Level Cells || Exploring Solid State Drives

You can hold all the data in the American Library of Congress AND all the data from Wikipedia on a small stack of solid-state drives especially considering a single SSD's capacity can reach up to 30 TB of data.  In this video, we'll explore how tens of terabytes can be crammed into such a small space.  This technology is called 3D NAND, and specifically, we'll explore the physics and concepts on how 3 bits of information can be written to and read from individual cells.

Table of Contents: 

00:00 - Setting up the Puzzle

01:26 - Microchips in the SSD

02:00 - Layout of Millions of Memory Cells

03:20 - What's a Threshold Voltage?

04:53 - Function of the Charge Trap

06:05 - Quick Recap

06:37 - Storing 1 Bit of Info

08:12 - Exploring a KIOXIA SSD

09:21 - Storing 3 Bits of Information

11:04 - Storing Information in Pages

12:16 - Wrap-up