Year: 2015
If you don’t live and breathe flash storage, you may not be aware of the memory characteristics inside your SSD or flash card. At first glance it doesn’t seem very important, but the memory type greatly impacts the reliability of the overall flash storage device. Flash Storage devices include flash cards such as CompactFlash, SD,...
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The latest buzzword in the market is the Internet of Things (IoT). I’ve heard the Internet of Things described as a bunch of sensors connected to everything, collecting data on everything, which is then transmitted over the Internet to everyone. With that said there are many different requirements in this Internet of Things. There’s relatively...
This is Blog #12 of 13 in our Solid State Drives 101 educational series. If you're ready, continue to Blog #13: Over-Provisioning. This article covers the TRIM command supported by some SATA and SCSI SSD controllers. The TRIM command is related to a SSD’s Garbage Collection process described in the previous article.With Garbage Collection, when the Operating...
Logistics required to transport goods and people around the globe is generally taken for granted by people outside this industry. When a person or cargo can arrive within 48 hours to almost anywhere on the planet, some sophisticated systems are performing behind the scenes. There are many different methods of transport including Container Ship, Railway,...
Harsh environments for OEM applications demand a more reliable flash storage device than is generally found in the marketplace. This more reliable storage is Industrial Grade. Industrial Grade Flash Storage does not have to come at a huge expense. For many embedded applications there is only a need for 128MB or less of storage which...
This is Blog #11 of 13 in our Solid State Drives 101 educational series. If you're ready, continue to Blog #12: TRIM Command. This article follows the Wear Leveling post and covers SSD controller’s Garbage Collection algorithms. Garbage Collection is the process to reclaim previously written blocks of data so they can be rewritten with new data. The reason...
The data storage market is currently going through an active phase of consolidation. Large SSD and traditional rotating hard disk drive manufacturers are acquiring smaller niche Industrial Grade solid state companies. A recent example of this is HGST’s acquisition of STEC. Shortly after this acquisition, HGST was purchased by Western Digital Corporation (WDC). While STEC...
This is Blog #10 of 13 in our Solid State Drives 101 educational series. If you're ready, continue to Blog #11: Garbage Collection. This article follows the Controller Architecture article covering typical SSD Controller Functions and Blocks. It takes a look at how SSD controllers use Wear Leveling algorithms to compensate for the finite number of erase cycles inherent...
Embedded applications requiring the smallest form factor memory storage design and needing high endurance, high reliability and/or long life cycles with locked BOM control should consider Industrial microSD cards. The microSD standard was officially approved by the SD Association in July 2005, although it had been around prior to this under the names TransFlash and T-Flash. It...
