The Inner Workings Of SSDs

Found a most interesting article series about how SSD internally work: http://codecapsule.com/2014/02/12/coding-for-ssds-part-1-introduction-and-table-of-contents/

It goes quite deep, e.g. explains the internal structure of FLASH memory as well as how the Flash-Translation-Layer (FTL) works. I have not see any such detailed description yet.

A Bit Related

hdparm works well doe SCSI disks (or disks which behave like SCSI disks), but it does not work with NVME disks. But nvme does. See here: https://tinyapps.org/docs/nvme-sanitize.html how to erase NVME SSDs.

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