Abstract
Moore’s Law has brought upon innovation and technological advances to the semiconductor industry, which has resulted in advancements to Solid-State Drives (SSD). This thesis is a design verification of a Solid-State Drive that utilizes a Peripheral Component Interface Express (PCIe) connection. The design of the drive is modeled using SolidWorks Computer Aided Design (CAD) and modeling simulations provided within SolidWorks simulations. SolidWorks modeling simulations such as Drop, and Flow are used to simulate industry and/or customer standards for the drive. Further verification of the Solid-State drive is performed using Lansmont Shock/Drop machine and a Thermal Wind Tunnel. The empirical data from the verification tests are used to correlate the data acquired from the SolidWorks simulations. The results show that the simulations acquired by SolidWorks and the empirical data from the verification test are consistent. The simulation also proved to be a useful predictive tool when inquiring about possible outcomes in designing products and predicting material behavior, such as in this design verification of a Solid-State Drive.