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if you're in the market for an SSD or solid-state drive chances are that you're thinking about things like capacity and speed if you've ever read a more in-depth review of an SSD you've probably seen talk about Drive controllers and how they have the potential to make or break a drives overall performance but what exactly is a drive controller well think of it this way if you were to go to the local hardware store and just buy a toolbox it's not very useful unless you're putting stuff in it and while it's possible to use your toolbox despite dumping stuff in it willy nilly you'll get a lot more out of your general toolbox experience by sorting your pliers and nails and whatnot into the little compartments so it'll be easier to find stuff when it comes time to tackle your next big project this process of sorting your stuff in a storage container is very similar to what an SSD controller does just like a toolbox can't sort the tools itself the flash cells on your SSD that store data need something that can fill them up sensibly with ones and zeros and talk to the rest of your computer the SATA data connector on your SSD is wired directly into your SSDs controller which processes the data and then sends it to your drives flash memory so because the controller is responsible for actually putting data onto the SSD lower-end ones can create a bottleneck or even be less reliable due to hardware and or firmware differences unfortunately the reasons behind why one controller is better than the other aren't always clear because manufacturers treat controller designs like trade secrets so it's a little hard to analyze sand forces signature blend of 11 herbs and spices compared to Samsung's secret sauce that actually just turns out to be Thousand Island but what we can tell you is that nicer controllers in higher-end drives are connected too many memory cells at once for faster throughput a little bit like how GPUs contain many compute cores that work in parallel to help you get higher frame rates but what are some of the other important ways a controller keeps data flowing smoothly well one of these is we're leveling on like a traditional mechanical hard drive that will generally last until the moving parts wear out SSD flash cells can only be written and rewritten so many times so imagine a shelf instead of always putting data on the lowest easiest to reach one the controller will try to write all cells evenly to extend the usable life of the drive as a whole controllers also handle a couple very important features called garbage collection and trim unlike hard drives where data can just be overwritten at will SSDs store data in blocks that must first be erased before new data can be written garbage collection handles this by marking certain parts of data within the block as stale if they're ok to be replaced with newer data moving the remainder of the still good data to a new block then finally erasing the old one the problem with this is that when you go to delete a file garbage collection doesn't mark the deleted data as stale so garbage collection actually keeps copying these data to new blocks needlessly using up write cycles this is where trim comes in an operating system command that tells your SSD controller which pieces of data within a block are actually parts of deleted files so they won't stick around both improving performance and increasing the lifespan of your drive which is critical if you want your SSD to last the four years it needs to so it can store an entire election cycles worth of dankmemes speaking of that Squarespace simple powerful beautiful 24/7 live chat support and email if you need help setting up your website that you can get for twelve dollars a month and if you buy a year you get a domain thrown in with that website as well when you're setting things up there's responsive design so that your website that you're building based off one of their many awesome templates will look great on a huge variety of devices and if you want to sell something you can do that as well using their commerce module if you just want one Stingo page that just looks really good you can use their cover page module which also works just great and now they have Squarespace start an app that allows you to create a simple one-page site that I just kind of referenced from your mobile device you can start a trial with no credit card required and start building your website today and if you do use offer code tekzilla off your first purchase all right guys if you like this video like it you dislike this video do that thing I get subscribed if you want to see more of our content comment down below with other stuff that you'd like us to see cover on the tech quickie channel check out channel super-fun because they're cool and I'll see you next time