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Controller Functions – Wear Leveling
Wear Leveling and Sequential Writing to NAND Memory: The image above shows…
Controller Architecture – Basic Overview
The reason for the controller function is to manage the NAND components…
The Need for High Speed Interfaces
Processor vendors have continued to ramp the performance of individual processor cores,…
PCI-Express
PCI-Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) or PCIe is a bus standard that…
SAS and SATA
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is a communication protocol traditionally used to move…
Garbage Collection
Both wear leveling techniques rely on the availability of free sectors that…
Flash Controller
A memory controller has two fundamental tasks: 1. provide the most suitable…
Things to Look Out For
Capacity Obviously it‟s important to get a drive that‟s big enough to…
SSDs vs. Conventional Hard Drives
As you can see from the picture above, the main difference between…




