*An SSD (solid-state drive) is a type of nonvolatile storage

media that stores persistent data on solid-state flash

memory.

*Two key components make up an SSD: a flash

controller and NAND flash memory chips.
*Unlike a hard disk drive (HDD), an SSD has no moving
parts to break or spin up or down.

*Mechanism of SSD

*Functionality of SSD

*Other features: Low Power- Cosumption, Less Noise,

Less Weight, Predictive Analytics
*SSD performance is considered to be much faster
than the highest performance electromechanical disk
drives. Seek time and latency are also substantially
reduced.
 What is RAID?
 Stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

 It’s a technology that enables greater levels of

performance, reliability and/or large volumes when
dealing with data.

 How?? By concurrent use of two or more ‘hard disk

drives’.

 How Exactly?? Mirroring, Stripping (of data) and Error

correction techniques combined with multiple disk arrays
give you the reliability and performance.
 Types of RAID
 Commonly used ones:
1. RAID 0
2. RAID 1
3. RAID 5
4. RAID 10
 Other types used…but rarely: RAID 2,3,4,6,50……
 RAID Level-0
file data block 0 block 1 block 2 block 3 block 4

0 block 0 0 block 1
1 block 2 1 block 3
sectors 2 block 4 2
sectors
3 3
4 4
5 5

Disk 0 Disk 1
 RAID Level-1
file data block 0 block 1 block 2 block 3 block 4

0 block 0 0 block 0
1 block 1 1 block 1
sectors 2 block 2 2 block 2
sectors
3 block 3 3 block 3
4 block 4 4 block 4
5 5

Disk 0 Disk 1
RAID Level-5
RAID Level-10
An HDD might be the right choice if:
• You need lots of storage capacity, up to 10TB
• Don’t want to spend much money
• Don’t care too much about how fast a computer boots up
or opens programs - then get a hard drive (HDD).

An SSD might be the right choice if:

• You are willing to pay for faster performance
• Don’t mind limited storage capacity or can work around
that (though consumer SSD now go up to 4TB and
enterprise run as high as 60TB)