Since NAND flash is weakened by erase/write cycles then it would make sense to try to reduce those cycles to prolong the life of an SSD right? That’s what external data buffers are designed to do.
There are many ways to use RAM (either a RAM internal to the SSD controller chip or a discrete DRAM chip on the SSD’s printed circuit card) to stage data in a way that will reduce erase/write cycles.
One is to perform a function called “Write Coalescing.” This involves Continue reading “How Controllers Maximize SSD Life – External Data Buffering”
Tom Coughlin and I are still seeking IT professional inputs for our 5-minute IOPS survey.
One popular argument to explain why SSDs have not displaced the HDDs in all PCs is that there isn’t enough NAND flash production capacity to support this business and there never can be.
Seagate
Only four days after announcing the company’s 
It’s tough to design an SSD controller, and even tougher to make one that can simply compete against the great ones that already ship in volume. To make a truly better controller would seem to require an astonishing effort. It appears that a company with a very odd name: 
RunCore has just introduced a wonderfully innovative new SSD feature that could create new problems for air travel.
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