Solid State Drive

Solid State Drive (SSD)
MICROPROSSER ARCHITECTURE
Mustafa Anwar Sabeeh

Northern Technical University
Dep. Electronic and control
2020-06-11
SSD’s Introduction
To really comprehends SSDs and the function of these sort of storage
there are couple of questions we should answer
 what does an SSD really do?
An SSD is a type of mass storage device similar to a hard disk drive

(HDD). It supports reading and writing data and maintains stored data
in a permanent state even without power. Internal SSDs connect to a
computer like a hard drive, using standard IDE or SATA connections
 How does an SDD works?
it uses semiconductor chips, not magnetic media, to store data The

motherboard contains some that house your device's system memory,
or RAM, which is where information is stored and processed when
your computer is running.
 How are SSDs made?
Typically, SSD are made using NAND flash memory, but a DRAM
based device would also be considered a solid state drive (SSD).
Without the spindle motor needed to rotate platters and an actuator to
move the heads to the correct location, a SSD generally uses much less
power than its mechanical HDD counterpart.
 What’s the connector types that SSDs use to interface with a

computer?
There are several connector types including SATA, PCIe, M.2, U.2,
mSATA, SATA Express SATA-based SSDs are best for older computers
that lack newer SSD connector types and have only SATA connections.
But the SATA-based SSDs cannot utilize the speed and efficiency of
newer controllers such as NVMe. NVMe, or Non-Volatile Memory
Express promises lower latency by operating with higher efficiency,
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working with Solid State’s parallelization abilities by being able to run
more than two thousand times more commands to or from the drive
than compared to a drive on the AHCI controller. (AHCI is the
controller that Hard Drives traditionally use to interface between the
SATA bus of a Hard Drive and the computer it is connected to). To get
the optimal performance out of an NVMe drive, make sure it uses PCIe
(Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) as a bus which alleviates
all the bottlenecks that would come with using SATA as a bus.
History
Before we talk about the new developed SSD in this era we should take
through back to the history of it and the invention of the solid state
drive
In the mid-1950s, as the

transistor was emerging
from IBM research, IBM
developed their first bulk
solid state nonvolatile
memory called the
Charged Capacitor Read
Only Store (CCROS). It
was the first concept of
an SSD and was the
predecessor to today's
EPROMS, EEPROMS,
UVPROMS, NVPROMS,
and FLASH memory
devices
Figure 1: IBM coustomer engineer is shown inserting a
punched-coded card into a CCROS
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Nevertheless, the IBM CCROS Was just a concept of the true SSDs
the first true SSD was introduced in 1976 by Dataram a computer

company, it was the bulk core
The product held up to eight individual memory boards in total the

bulk core system could provide 2MB of storage and the data access
time ranged from 0.75ms to 2ms (today SSDs regularly have 0.06 ms
access time)
However, the flash memory, was invented by Fujio Masuoka at

Toshiba in 1980 and commercialized by Toshiba in 1987. And in the
early 1990s, flash memory was still costly and rare and it didn’t boast
the same data-access times as dynamic RAM-Based SSDs did
Skipping forward to the 21st century In 2006 Samsung released one of

the first mass-market flash SSDs, a 2.5-inch 32GB drive with a PATA
interface ($699) designed as a drop-in replacement for laptop hard
drives. SanDisk followed in 2007 with its own 2.5-inch 32GB drive, the
SATA 5
Today’s costumer SSDs keep getting faster and cheaper thanks to the
new flash chips and higher speed SATA interfaces manufacturers are
also experimenting with new ways to package SSDs
Advantages of SSDs
Someone might ask why the shift from the traditional Hard Disk
Drive (HDD) to the more expensive SSD?
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The difference between hard drives and solid state drives is in the
technology used to store and retrieve data. an SSD is flash storage and
has no moving parts whatsoever. HDD storage is made up of magnetic
tape and has mechanical parts inside. They're larger than SSDs so the
first benefit for SSDs they are lighter and smaller compare to the HDD
SSDs also are faster type of device that stores data on instantly
accessible memory chips on the other hand the HDD is slower with
writing/reading data.
HDDs has more storage than the SSD but in the near future we might
get the same storages from the SSDs
The main advantage that HDD has over the SSD is price the SSD is
more expensive than the regular older HDD
In conclusion SSDs are faster, lighter, more durable, and use less
energy
And HDD has bigger storage and much chipper, in the end your needs
will dictate which storage drive will work best for you.
The future of SSDs storage

future SSDs will be bigger and more affordable and with greater
write/read speeds, and maybe we will see a new form of SSDs storage
media
technology is progressing faster and faster every day, just a decade ago
computers was insanely big and expensive and not much useful,
nowadays computers are smaller, chipper and more reliable
let’s wait and see what does the future hold for us.
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Solid State Drive (SSD)

Mustafa Anwar Sabeeh

 what does an SSD really do?

An SSD is a type of mass storage device similar to a hard disk drive

 How does an SDD works?

it uses semiconductor chips, not magnetic media, to store data The

 How are SSDs made?

 What’s the connector types that SSDs use to interface with a

In the mid-1950s, as the

the first true SSD was introduced in 1976 by Dataram a computer

The product held up to eight individual memory boards in total the

However, the flash memory, was invented by Fujio Masuoka at

Skipping forward to the 21st century In 2006 Samsung released one of

The future of SSDs storage

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