If you find this interesting, you might also find this article in Communications of the ACM interesting: Michael Cornwell: Anatomy of a Solid-State Drive Comm

If you find this interesting, you might also find this article in Communications of the ACM interesting: Michael Cornwell: Anatomy of a Solid-State Drive Communications of the ACM, Vol. 55 No. 12, Pages 59-63 http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/12/157869-anatomy-of-a-solid-state-drive/fulltext http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/12/157869-anatomy-of-a-so... Alternative link in case the first is paywalled for people not on a university campus: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2385276 http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2385276 It goes into quite some detail on how SSD storage works on a system level and how it differs from hard disks.