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What does a NAND Cell look like?
A simple NAND Flash Cell diagram is shown above. The NAND flash cell is made from a floating gate transistor. Electrical…
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Solid State Drives (SSD) Upgrade – 5 Things You Should Know
If you’re thinking of getting a Solid State Drive (SSD) for your desktop or laptop computer, here are a few…
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The Need for High Speed Interfaces
Processor vendors have continued to ramp the performance of individual processor cores, to combine multiple cores in one chip, and…
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PCI-Express
PCI-Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) or PCIe is a bus standard that replaced PCI and PCI-X. PCI-SIG (PCI Special Interest…
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SAS and SATA
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is a communication protocol traditionally used to move data between storage devices and host. SAS is…
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Garbage Collection
Both wear leveling techniques rely on the availability of free sectors that can be filled up with the updates: as…
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Flash Controller
A memory controller has two fundamental tasks: 1. provide the most suitable interface and protocol towards both the host and…
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Things to Look Out For
Capacity Obviously it‟s important to get a drive that‟s big enough to hold your operating system, programs and data. The…
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Should I get one?
Advantages Speed This is the biggest reason to go for an SSD; they‟re much, much faster than conventional hard drives…
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SSDs vs. Conventional Hard Drives
As you can see from the picture above, the main difference between a hard drive and a solid-state drive is…
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Form Factor
5.25” This has always been a favourite form factor for the DRAM SSD, as it gives plenty of room for…
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Different Kinds of Solid State Drives
Technology DRAM This is one of the oldest kinds of SSDs but is still reasonably common today in certain situations.…