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Why Flash Wears Out and How to Make it Last Longer

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Eric Slack

The life expectancy and durability of flash-based storage is a common topic in many presentations involving solid-state drive (SSD) products. While flash endurance is a prime factor in the economics of this technology, seldom is the audience given an explanation…

Tagged with: Bit Error Rate, ECC, Flash memory, Flash memory controller, HGST, MLC, Multi-level cell, Solid-state drive, SSD, sTec
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OCZ Deneva 2 Test Drive – First Impressions

Posted on July 25, 2011 by George Crump

OCZ recently sent Storage Switzerland two of their new Deneva 2 eMLC based solid state disk drives (SSD) to test in our labs. eMLC, or enterprise MLC, has a longer life cycle (about 30,000 program/erase cycles) than MLC without the…

Tagged with: Hard disk drive, HDD, MLC, Multi-level cell, OCZ Technology, Solid-state drive, SSD
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SSD, Heal Thyself!

Posted on June 29, 2011 by George Crump

It is a well known fact that each write takes a toll on the longevity of flash-based solid state storage (SSS), and that each particular module will eventually fail after reaching its write limit. Depending on the memory type that,…

Tagged with: ECC, MLC, RAID, SLC, SSD, SSS, Texas Memory
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Pay Attention to Flash Controllers when Comparing SSD Systems

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Eric Slack

Solid State Disk (SSD) storage devices now commonly use flash memory as the media on which they record data. Flash has driven the SSD cost per capacity significantly below that of DRAM based SSD and flash is narrowing the lead…

Tagged with: DRAM, ECC, Flash memory, MLC, Multi-level cell, SLC, Solid-state drive, SSD
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