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A comment on The OpenSSD Project (2011).

Re:The OpenSSD Project (2011) by djsumdog on Thursday August 11, 2016 @01:44AM (#12266461)
Kinda related, the complexity of a basic SD card is insane. They have full 32-bit micro-controllers for data handling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPEzLNh5YIo

Not anywhere near as complex as a full SSD, but still very interesting if you're into storage technology.

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Re:The OpenSSD Project (2011) by versteegen on Thursday August 11, 2016 @08:30AM (#12267655)
Thanks, fantastic talk. I never knew. Well actually, not far off the complexity of an SSD: apparently SD cards even use wear levelling algorithms, and so forth, and some SD cards have ARM microcontrollers.
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