Love it how they blur out the brand but the model number is still present, but when they show the quality control area, the brand is on the box and not blurred
the reason one scene is blurred and the other is not is down to the rules and what that scene did opening scene was explaining the virtues of ssd and all there features to show the brand name would be almost as if there marketing the drive directly sorta like a movie actor drinking a coke and saying this cokes tasty the following scenes where they didnt blur contained no endorsement it was simply the drive gets tested then packaged and coincidently there just crucial drives sorta like a actor doing a scene that has a coke in the background 1 is a direct endorsement the other is not because its not meant to be a endorsement they blur the logo when talking about features of ssd
@@Runescapevidproducer humans are genetically wired to spot paterns you tard it stems from caveman times when we sould learn to spot patterns in animals and plants to let us tell if they were harmfull for ssds we can tell brands just by noticing the patterns on the drive we do simmilar with cars so yes humans are genetically wired to spot patterns and distinctive shapes and colors
Impossible to explain, and even more impossible to understand how someone could think of such a process. Incredible and really impressive, brilliant minds!
bruh i know right, every time i think about shit like bluetooth and wifi and computers im like, did people figure this shit out? how did we go from doing all math on paper to building machines that can do TRILLIONS of calculations every SECOND in the lifespan of a single person???
@@lolbotomy physics and chemistry science research, which gave birth to computer science, which speed up thing exponentially with tools like CAD, EDA and distributed networks.
Should have went with Samsung, intel, Kingston, toshiba, team force almost any brand could have worked better than crucial besides adata silicone power ocz but I digress
there are heavier chasis for ssd out there, not sure if their considered industrial grade, but I have seen kingston ones that easily weigh 3 or 4 of those regular ones
hard drives are one of greatest inventions of all time since over 50 years of engineering went in to them and ssd's can't even keep up with storage/ price ratio hdd offers - call me up when your ssd will cost 500 bucks for 12TB
1sonyzz mass storage is one thing, but speed is another. SSD can be 500 times faster than a HDD...which one would you want windows on? Some people just have to be contrary and argumentative no matter what smh.
@@JoshuaW86 This is the area where SSD is making the biggest inroads - "low write demand" applications such as (mostly) read-only OS boot media. Having said that some of the top end server manufacturers (e.g. HP) are using SSD as ultrafast look-ahead cache storage, so we're seeing a sort of hybrid system - traditional fast-rotation (7200 rpm) HD using even faster SSD as a buffer.
@@joshmciver4847 No, I was an SMT operator. Starts in this video at about 2:12 The machine printing solder onto the boards, the pick and place robot placing components, the linear oven fusing the solder. I ran and did all of that.
Interesting how the most essential parts, the memory chips, seem to just magically appear out of nowhere. "How to make SSDs: Assemble parts." How informative..
@@mentalmelt Transistors are the features that were etched in silicon. Again, the entire first half of the video was about that. You need to maybe watch some videos about how transistors and other features are imprinted onto silicon, and then come and take back your "you are mistaken" comment to me ;)
@@BaghaShams Sorry, I was half asleep writing that last comment. You're right. My bad. I must have partially skipped through it looking for a thorough explanation. They don't explain much though. If someone wants to know how memory chips are made, this isn't very informative.
But all those machines... they have microchips in them with memory and silicon and stuff. And those machines are making chips with memory and silicon and stuff. But which machine made that machine’s chips? And which machine made the chips for the machine that made the chips for that machine? How did they do it without computers!
really makes you realize how lucky we all are, just imagine trying to undertake a task like this.. not in a million years would i be able to create something as intricate as this..
@0:15 "...and faster than traditional hard drives" Yes and no. SSDs are not all built on the same NAND cell technology. There are four types of NAND cells. From fastest to slowest (and from most expensive to least expensive): -- SLC (single layer cells) -- MLC (multi (as in double) layer cells) -- TLC (triple layer cells) -- QLC (quad layer cells) Not only are SLC SSDs the fastest (and by a magnitude of over 1000x), they are also the most durable. But, you say, you have a QLC drive -- and it flies (just like the numbers on the box claim). Yes, it does. But it is deceptive. Why? Nearly all TLC and QLC drives have cache. And what is that cache made from? That cache is made from SLC NAND cells. And that cache is usually between 25GB to over 100GB of the drive (bigger drives typically have more cache). The box never gives you the true, native speed of the QLC NAND cells, which is probably 15MB/second, at best (and is 1/10th the speed of any of today's hard drives). Nearly all consumers will never hammer their QLC SSDs long enough to run out of cache. Once the SSD is not busy, it empties its SLC cache onto the QLC cells -- in the background. So all of the time, you are always getting the performance of the cache (of the SLC cells). If you write hundreds of gigabytes to the QLC SSD, without rest, you will see it fly for a minute or two, and then you will see if grind to a snails pace. So the statement "...and fater than traditional hard drives" is misleading. But for most folks, it is never an issue. Note that it is only the write speed that will suffer, when you run out of cache. The read speed will always remain fast (although SLC will still outperform QLC). Also note that one of SSDs key advantages is that it can read and write countless small files, simultaneously, at breakneck speeds. Mechanical hard drives are slow at doing so. This is why a computer with a SSD will reboot so much faster than a computer with a mechanical hard drive. Cheers!
I believe the first part of the video was produced at the IM Flash Technologies plant in Lehi, Utah and the second part at the Micron Taiwan Plant in Taipei.
IMHO, the ultimate understanding comes from understanding them at the physical level. That means studying semiconductor/solid state physics, which requires quantum mechanics, which requires differential equations, which requires calculus, which in turn, requires the algebra that you're probably studying right now. That probably sounds like a lot, but if you're truly interested in that level of understanding, get your math on and get ahead of the curve! It is possible though, to get a rudimentary understanding of them through electrical networks (circuits), and learning that only really requires algebra.
I can’t believe how hands-on the assembly process is. No wonder they’re still so expensive, tons of well paying jobs involved not to mention the billion dollar production facilities, R&D, and 3rd party component costs for manufacturers without totally vertical integration.
Exactly And considering the price of them I really don’t think it’s bad at all. Just think, you pay roughly $200 for a pair of Nike’s, that took no special or expensive materials, sewing machines and not ridiculously expensive equipment to manufacture, a typical warehouse compared to somewhere as sterile and controlled as pharmaceutical manufacture, and then then cost of designing a new pair of sneakers vs the R&D involved with making new computer components, yet both are about the same price. Puts things into perspective doesn’t it
Lol a yt content creator downloaded this exact video and change the narrator's/speaker's voice only 2yrs ago, and apparently he has more views than this original video. Hmmm...🤔 Anyway, thank you for this great info!
Good to see that manufacturer still stuck to numbers like 512 GiB and not estimating a GiB to a 1000MB and not 1024MB like some HDD manufacturers use to do.
That's because memory and flash are electronically addressed. Those addresses come in powers of two because it depends on the number of wires used in the address bus. Hard drives are mechanically addressed. There is no power of two involved. There has never been a reason to measure HDD in GiB, other than people were used to measuring RAM that way.
It has only been in the past couple of years that I actually brought my first SSD. I was turned off by the lack of storage space. My first SSD experience, I did not rate that highly I was measuring between my SSD and HDD and was only noticing about a 1 second delay between the two. I then brought an older computer, and the HDD included seemed to be so slow, so I formatted and still slow, I then installed the SSD and never looked back. It is fantastic for older computers. On more modern computers and with a brand new HDD not a massive difference between the two. However, all my computers are now SSD's all five of them, just so I can keep my OS on one drive and not have to worry about any slow downs on a standard HDD in the future.
If you don't see a massive difference between an SSD and HDD of any age, then something's not right in your system. All SSDs are FAR faster than any mechanical hard drive.
People just need to snap out of using a regular hard disk drive as a boot device once they learn about this and adjust to SSDs to get a much faster performance.
Most industrial software especially in manufacturing runs XP. There are pictures from the Apple assembly lines in China where the machines run XP ( Some also include Tim Cook)
I just bought a new SSD and I realized I have no idea how they work so I decided to watch this, and I'm not really any brighter now lmao. But it was entertaining at least
Plus flash memory controller and potential some dram to be used as cache and some electronics, basically both memory cards and SSDs use flash as the storage medium but SSDs are usually more complex so they could bolster performance capacity and endurance.
Love it how they blur out the brand but the model number is still present, but when they show the quality control area, the brand is on the box and not blurred
the reason one scene is blurred and the other is not is down to the rules and what that scene did
opening scene was explaining the virtues of ssd and all there features to show the brand name would be almost as if there marketing the drive directly
sorta like a movie actor drinking a coke and saying this cokes tasty
the following scenes where they didnt blur contained no endorsement it was simply the drive gets tested then packaged and coincidently there just crucial drives
sorta like a actor doing a scene that has a coke in the background
1 is a direct endorsement the other is not because its not meant to be a endorsement they blur the logo when talking about features of ssd
Is it sad that i knew what the brand was just by looking at the SSD?
@@MCchomper not entireley humans are genetically wired to do this
@@Sarge92 Humans are genetically wired to differentiate between different brands of SSD's? I don't remember studying that during my biology classes...
@@Runescapevidproducer humans are genetically wired to spot paterns you tard
it stems from caveman times when we sould learn to spot patterns in animals and plants to let us tell if they were harmfull
for ssds we can tell brands just by noticing the patterns on the drive we do simmilar with cars
so yes humans are genetically wired to spot patterns and distinctive shapes and colors
watched for the process. liked for the pun
punny and funny
where
4:17 Hair on the drive
😂😂😂 your supervision
Someone gonna RMA soon.
I don't see it...
IT IS NOT MINE
LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE
I, too, replied "maybe" to Diane's birthday invite. I don't plan on going.
Who is "Diane"?
Impossible to explain, and even more impossible to understand how someone could think of such a process. Incredible and really impressive, brilliant minds!
Someone didn't think of it, many people thought of it. each in their own disciplines.
"we are dvarves on the shoulders of giants"
bruh i know right, every time i think about shit like bluetooth and wifi and computers im like, did people figure this shit out? how did we go from doing all math on paper to building machines that can do TRILLIONS of calculations every SECOND in the lifespan of a single person???
@@lolbotomy physics and chemistry science research, which gave birth to computer science, which speed up thing exponentially with tools like CAD, EDA and distributed networks.
It's crucial to obscure the manufacturer's name in the intro but later on, meh. See what I did there?
Very Crucial Point
Ikr
No...
Should have went with Samsung, intel, Kingston, toshiba, team force almost any brand could have worked better than crucial besides adata silicone power ocz but I digress
Crucial Observation. *Laughs in nerd*
You will never realise how lightweight is a SSD is until you hold one.
seriously! Mine flew away when I first picked it up.
it depends on what kind of hdds one was accustomed to.. :}
an hdd for an ultra light laptop is considerably lighter than a 15k SCSI hdd for a server
there are heavier chasis for ssd out there, not sure if their considered industrial grade, but I have seen kingston ones that easily weigh 3 or 4 of those regular ones
yeah especially for nvme ssd
Also u never realize what you're missing out on in boot times until u have one in ur system
SSD’s are one of the greatest inventions of all time imo.
hard drives are one of greatest inventions of all time since over 50 years of engineering went in to them and ssd's can't even keep up with storage/ price ratio hdd offers - call me up when your ssd will cost 500 bucks for 12TB
1sonyzz mass storage is one thing, but speed is another. SSD can be 500 times faster than a HDD...which one would you want windows on? Some people just have to be contrary and argumentative no matter what smh.
@@JoshuaW86 This is the area where SSD is making the biggest inroads - "low write demand" applications such as (mostly) read-only OS boot media. Having said that some of the top end server manufacturers (e.g. HP) are using SSD as ultrafast look-ahead cache storage, so we're seeing a sort of hybrid system - traditional fast-rotation (7200 rpm) HD using even faster SSD as a buffer.
@@1sonyzz think about if you wanna transfer 1TB of data in less than 10 minutes. In HDD, you can't achieve that. So, SSD is the solution.
@@Hashhakaj.Kamaluddin
Sure you can. Just raid 10000 drives together
It's amazing how far technology has come
Holy crap, it's weird seeing a company I use to work for in one of these videos.
Showing the kind of work I use to do no less!
K
Looks fun to me.
which part? I'm guessing the screwdriver person, or packaging person...
The plastic anti static wrap manufacturer? ok
@@joshmciver4847 No, I was an SMT operator. Starts in this video at about 2:12 The machine printing solder onto the boards, the pick and place robot placing components, the linear oven fusing the solder. I ran and did all of that.
Discovery: Makes a video about making SSDs
LinusTechTips: *Drops them*
PlushCrochet Linus drop tips
Save yourself the time guys, it's just black magic.
You mean asian magic?
Yes, asian magic. Or maybe aliens?
Any sufficiently advanced technology may be undistinguishable from magic
Each drive undergoes extensive tests so that it can store and retrieve valuable porn videos.
At over 600 mb/s
Without the danger of scratching the disk from moving it while you spank
XDD well that escalated quicky
better to use HDD, I have a few terrabytes on them
@@MarkNorville virgin spotted
WTF? Going from the silicone wafer and magically making the chips of assembly
magic
automagicly
th-cam.com/video/EZJzLQJMdXs/w-d-xo.html
First part was taken from there.
First, it's silicon, not silicone. Second, they explained the process of how the circuit is etched to make the chip. Were you not paying attention?
@@stargazer7644 They dont explain the process where cities of electron traps are made inside the silicon....
Worked as Wafer Testing, Wafer Cutting and Wafer die Taping for 8 years and im still in awe of the technology involved in making them.
What type of product was being made in your building? Was is memory storage like this or processors or something else?
How are the nanometric structured built?
I have that exact drive (Crucial MX500) in my iMac and it is very fast. Also about 1/4 the size of the factory HDD. Amazing tech
Eh, thats M500. But yeah, MX500 is goat
That SSD is from Crucial, -a division of Lexar Media- , which is a subsidiary of Micron Electronics.
Lexar has nothing to do with Crucial or Micron. Crucial is just a brand name used by Micron.
Nick Shvelidze Micron used to own Lexar though.
It's like they didn't realize that that drive is very recognizable
"Sounds like a pretty good GIG to me."
Heh, nice.
Interesting how the most essential parts, the memory chips, seem to just magically appear out of nowhere. "How to make SSDs: Assemble parts." How informative..
The entire first half of the video was about making those memory chips. The video didn't explain well that those chips became the memory chips.
@@BaghaShams You are mistaken. They show how the board is made, not the chips. The chips are made of transistors. They don't explain any of that.
@@mentalmelt Transistors are the features that were etched in silicon. Again, the entire first half of the video was about that. You need to maybe watch some videos about how transistors and other features are imprinted onto silicon, and then come and take back your "you are mistaken" comment to me ;)
@@BaghaShams Sorry, I was half asleep writing that last comment. You're right. My bad. I must have partially skipped through it looking for a thorough explanation. They don't explain much though. If someone wants to know how memory chips are made, this isn't very informative.
But all those machines... they have microchips in them with memory and silicon and stuff. And those machines are making chips with memory and silicon and stuff. But which machine made that machine’s chips? And which machine made the chips for the machine that made the chips for that machine? How did they do it without computers!
i really love that 90's style beauty shot
Hmm so that's where my 200 GB homework folder gets saved on! Interesting!
4:17 There is hair!!!!!
haha, you should be their's quality control Manager
lol solid catch!
really makes you realize how lucky we all are, just imagine trying to undertake a task like this.. not in a million years would i be able to create something as intricate as this..
I love how they censored the company name and logo in the beginning but all the boxes just say "crucial" at the packaging line
That's because crucial chose what to show in the factory. The show did the video at the start.
"...that sounds like a pretty good Gig to me..." - omg the puns never end!
Oh my god, "
Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell" youtube channel's voice.
Is it? I'm pretty sure the narrator on that channel has a deeper voice.
Thanks for good information.
Can't wait for hugbees to dub this😂
@0:15 "...and faster than traditional hard drives"
Yes and no.
SSDs are not all built on the same NAND cell technology.
There are four types of NAND cells. From fastest to slowest (and from most expensive to least expensive):
-- SLC (single layer cells)
-- MLC (multi (as in double) layer cells)
-- TLC (triple layer cells)
-- QLC (quad layer cells)
Not only are SLC SSDs the fastest (and by a magnitude of over 1000x), they are also the most durable.
But, you say, you have a QLC drive -- and it flies (just like the numbers on the box claim).
Yes, it does. But it is deceptive. Why?
Nearly all TLC and QLC drives have cache. And what is that cache made from?
That cache is made from SLC NAND cells. And that cache is usually between 25GB to over 100GB of the drive (bigger drives typically have more cache).
The box never gives you the true, native speed of the QLC NAND cells, which is probably 15MB/second, at best (and is 1/10th the speed of any of today's hard drives).
Nearly all consumers will never hammer their QLC SSDs long enough to run out of cache. Once the SSD is not busy, it empties its SLC cache onto the QLC cells -- in the background. So all of the time, you are always getting the performance of the cache (of the SLC cells).
If you write hundreds of gigabytes to the QLC SSD, without rest, you will see it fly for a minute or two, and then you will see if grind to a snails pace.
So the statement "...and fater than traditional hard drives" is misleading. But for most folks, it is never an issue.
Note that it is only the write speed that will suffer, when you run out of cache. The read speed will always remain fast (although SLC will still outperform QLC).
Also note that one of SSDs key advantages is that it can read and write countless small files, simultaneously, at breakneck speeds. Mechanical hard drives are slow at doing so. This is why a computer with a SSD will reboot so much faster than a computer with a mechanical hard drive.
Cheers!
IMO, the shift from HDD to SSD was a huge leap in the tech/computer industry.
i love ssd's, the best upgrade you can get for an older laptop/pc, It will tripple yout speeds, and 60-120gb models are only $20-$50!
bob sharlt They have gotten so cheap, a 1TB model is under 100
I'll never revert back to an HDD
That was amazing to watch
the way he says "solder paste" i had to watch it twice lol.
I bought 2 of these exact ssd's shown, one is still working after 5 years, the other one died after 1-2 days. Gotta love ssds
I believe the first part of the video was produced at the IM Flash Technologies plant in Lehi, Utah and the second part at the Micron Taiwan Plant in Taipei.
Wafer Unit was in China?
@@gtn7178 No, I'm sure it was one of the plants in the US, and the largest one is in Lehi, Utah.
Congratulations 👏 and all the best for your success and happiness 💝
I have that exact same model.. bought it years ago.. still use it, but its now a backup storage instead of my primary drive.
I like how crucial was blurred in the intro but not in the factory
One of America's greatest inventions.
Thanks all solid state drives we have experienced thanks
No matter how many videos I watch about SSDs I can never seem to understand them
Are basically pendrives grouped together.
Its like saying I don’t understand how bike works
@@EnnTomi1 what do you expect from a 6th grader?
@Yo Ming 6th isnt a kid, lmao
IMHO, the ultimate understanding comes from understanding them at the physical level. That means studying semiconductor/solid state physics, which requires quantum mechanics, which requires differential equations, which requires calculus, which in turn, requires the algebra that you're probably studying right now. That probably sounds like a lot, but if you're truly interested in that level of understanding, get your math on and get ahead of the curve!
It is possible though, to get a rudimentary understanding of them through electrical networks (circuits), and learning that only really requires algebra.
I can’t believe how hands-on the assembly process is. No wonder they’re still so expensive, tons of well paying jobs involved not to mention the billion dollar production facilities, R&D, and 3rd party component costs for manufacturers without totally vertical integration.
Exactly
And considering the price of them I really don’t think it’s bad at all. Just think, you pay roughly $200 for a pair of Nike’s, that took no special or expensive materials, sewing machines and not ridiculously expensive equipment to manufacture, a typical warehouse compared to somewhere as sterile and controlled as pharmaceutical manufacture, and then then cost of designing a new pair of sneakers vs the R&D involved with making new computer components, yet both are about the same price. Puts things into perspective doesn’t it
it's no secret, it's crucial.
Lol a yt content creator downloaded this exact video and change the narrator's/speaker's voice only 2yrs ago, and apparently he has more views than this original video. Hmmm...🤔 Anyway, thank you for this great info!
Very excited to see where my crucial drive came from. Not enough of the process shown though.
finally from 144p to 1080p video
Good video, I myself recently upgraded to a Crucial SSD myself (mx500 500gb m.2) keeping my existing hdd. It's great
Definitely amazing tech.
They need to make how the machines that make things are made lol.
Love that kind of Engineering!
In one of you videos,you called ssd "solid state disk". You finally got it right
So much for it being a clean room lol , look at that hair left behind at 4:17!
Saving money for this
How are SSDs made? Magic!
That's what I understood from this...
Good to see that manufacturer still stuck to numbers like 512 GiB and not estimating a GiB to a 1000MB and not 1024MB like some HDD manufacturers use to do.
That's because memory and flash are electronically addressed. Those addresses come in powers of two because it depends on the number of wires used in the address bus. Hard drives are mechanically addressed. There is no power of two involved. There has never been a reason to measure HDD in GiB, other than people were used to measuring RAM that way.
Lol that pun at the very end lol
New subscriber here sir.. thanks
Crucial memory is the best
Fascinating
Always a pleasure watching your videos keep up the good work
4:17 the human hair presents itself, for the references that electronics usually has to it.
damn the production of the ssd reminds me of the video for such great heights by the postal service
I’m a gamer and I can relate to this video.
It has only been in the past couple of years that I actually brought my first SSD. I was turned off by the lack of storage space. My first SSD experience, I did not rate that highly I was measuring between my SSD and HDD and was only noticing about a 1 second delay between the two. I then brought an older computer, and the HDD included seemed to be so slow, so I formatted and still slow, I then installed the SSD and never looked back. It is fantastic for older computers. On more modern computers and with a brand new HDD not a massive difference between the two. However, all my computers are now SSD's all five of them, just so I can keep my OS on one drive and not have to worry about any slow downs on a standard HDD in the future.
If you don't see a massive difference between an SSD and HDD of any age, then something's not right in your system. All SSDs are FAR faster than any mechanical hard drive.
4:10 lol they forgot to blur crucial logo on the sticker!
THATS MY SSD!
A pretty good Gig xD
People just need to snap out of using a regular hard disk drive as a boot device once they learn about this and adjust to SSDs to get a much faster performance.
crucial best SSD brand
Samsung
samsungs are bad stupid frog shitter
We did enter input out put on back ups and sent the back ups into there manufacture so you would get something back even if it is data on hard-drive
I like this video
Good brother
Testing SSDs with winXP apps xD
Most industrial software especially in manufacturing runs XP. There are pictures from the Apple assembly lines in China where the machines run XP ( Some also include Tim Cook)
Now, I'm interested in How the protective foil shield is Made.
I was thinking how much the robot which makes the flash chips costs :-/
Title : SOLID STATE DRIVES | How It's Made
me at 1:15 :is that hdd ?
Those are the sort of wafers used to create circuits, not the platters of a hard drive. A giving hint is the large size of the disks in the video.
@@davidmella1174 thx
Awesome!
Editor's Logic: Blur out the brand name in the thumbnail and first short then give full details in upcoming scenes.
Amazing!
Unless you buy one on aliexpress and its just 4 sticks shoved in a 4 port hub glued down and some sand/lead/concrete added to make it feel heavy.
Nothing was explained, but at least British narrator didn’t call the packager an engineer.
i have one of this ssd crucial 1tb :) work good
does How It's Made segment have a separate channel?
Oh god.. that ending pun.. 😂😂
Computer making a computer drive which also has a hard drive or probably an ssd
I'm the dude playing a dude disguised as another dude!
But what made that computer?
2:43 from waffers jumps to finished pcbs. Where is the cutting and encapsulating?
Such great heights
YTP: Wow it's marmalade!
(Now in production.)
blurs out the brand in the b-roll intro shots... shows brand name later in video... xD
Ok sir
Im going to make one
Crucial factory
I just bought a new SSD and I realized I have no idea how they work so I decided to watch this, and I'm not really any brighter now lmao. But it was entertaining at least
think of it as fast sd cards
It's clearly crucial
My Western Digital 1TB HDD Has Never Let Me Down.
updates?
4:18 I am sorry, the names are exposed.
HIM: We'll Blur wherever we can
0:00 censored 4:36 uncensored good job
It wasn't as...Crucial?
yesss,cool,i have same so good
3:53 what do you mean? At 4:40 it literally says it's a 2.5" ssd, I've never heard of 3.5" ssds, if you're talking about m.2 then fair enough
It's just a group of high speed memory cards, they test those drives for 60 hours you mean they are shipping "used" drives
Plus flash memory controller and potential some dram to be used as cache and some electronics, basically both memory cards and SSDs use flash as the storage medium but SSDs are usually more complex so they could bolster performance capacity and endurance.