Garbage Collection
Both wear leveling techniques rely on the availability of free sectors that can be filled…
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Flash Controller
A memory controller has two fundamental tasks: 1. provide the most suitable interface and protocol…
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Things to Look Out For
Capacity Obviously it‟s important to get a drive that‟s big enough to hold your operating…
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Should I get one?
Advantages Speed This is the biggest reason to go for an SSD; they‟re much, much…
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SSDs vs. Conventional Hard Drives
As you can see from the picture above, the main difference between a hard drive…
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Form Factor
5.25” This has always been a favourite form factor for the DRAM SSD, as it…
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Different Kinds of Solid State Drives
Technology DRAM This is one of the oldest kinds of SSDs but is still reasonably…
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How do Solid State Drives Work?
A Solid State Drive emulates a hard disk drive in a host computer or embedded…
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Solid State Drive? What’s that?
You may have seen a lot of talk about Solid State Drives recently. In the…
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Solid State Drives (SSDs)
Solid-state drives (SSDs) are unanimously considered the enabling factor for bringing enterprise storage performances to…