Solid State Storage Devices: Technology, Structure, and Installation

Running Head: SOLID STATE STORAGE DEVICES
SOLID STATE STORAGE DEVICES
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................3
2. Literature review..........................................................................................................................3
3. Project Description......................................................................................................................3
4. Storage technology that is used in the solid state devices...........................................................4
5. How the data is retrieved in the solid state devices (in the form of 0/1s)....................................8
6. Largest available capacity..........................................................................................................10
7. Structure of the SSD..................................................................................................................10
7.1 The main control chip..........................................................................................................11
7.2 Buffer Chip..........................................................................................................................11
7.3 Flash memory chip..............................................................................................................11
8. Installation of the SSD...............................................................................................................12
8.1 Fitting the SSD into the bay.................................................................................................12
8.2 Plugging in of the SATA power cable.................................................................................13
8.3 Plugging in the SATA data cable........................................................................................14
8.4 Connecting the motherboard with the SATA data cable.....................................................14
9. Power requirements...................................................................................................................15
10. Conclusion...............................................................................................................................15
References......................................................................................................................................17

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1. Introduction
The physical information of the applications and all the user information is kept in the
storage media (Aazam et al. 2014). The internal hard drive acts as the primary storage media
used on a computer. The storage media differs from other storage mediums in a way that it does
not acts as the storage bay. Some examples of storage devices can be the CD/DVD drive, where
the disk is placed to read the contents of the CD/DVD, and another example can be the USB
flash drive reader (Kryuchyn et al. 2013). In this report, a discussion about the technology that is
used in the solid state storage devices is provided. Solid state storage or SSS are used to store
data and works like a flash storage device. NAND flash memory technology is used in the Solid
state storage devices. This report will also provide a discussion of the physical and logical
structure of the solid state devices and also the power requirements for that.
2. Literature review
The resources that were used in this report are reliable and along with that some websites
were also used to gather information. In the initial stage, some internet sources were collected
and also some websites were used to start the assignment.
3. Project Description
Solid state storage or SSS are used in the computers and are a type of storage media that
do not uses magnetic disks or does not include any moving parts (Sampson et al. 2014). The data
in the SSS are stored electronically. The RAM or Random Access Memory is an example that
uses the solid state media. Semi-conductor microchips are used to make these storage devices
thus, there are no moving components (Sun et al. 2014). The power needed by the SSDs are
much less compared to the spinning disks that are fixed to the hardware, and also dissipates less