From Bits to Banks/Planes
Explore the organization of flash memory in SSDs by understanding banks, blocks, and pages. Learn why writing to flash requires erasing entire blocks and how this impacts SSD performance and design.
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As they say in ancient Greece, storing a single bit (or a few) does not a storage system make. Hence, flash chips are organized into banks or planes which consist of a large number of cells.
A bank is accessed in two different sized units: ...