Due to the unique characteristics of flash, performance validation testing is immensely challenging and critically important; follow these best practices All-flash storage arrays (AFAs) are receiving ...

NAND flash density has already reached 16 Gbits per die and beyond with 2-bit/cell multilevel-cell (MLC) technology using 50- and 40-nano- meter process nodes. Despite the impressive growth in bit ...

The Flash Memory Summit 2022 conference, held this week, is a showcase for the latest in flash storage technology. The conference, also known by its “FMS” acronym, brought together developers of a ...

NVMe (non-volatile memory express) is a new flash storage protocol that eliminates a lot of the overhead of legacy protocols such as SAS and SATA. The result is much lower latency and greater ...

While performance is a key differentiator, making the right solid-state storage choice is made more complex by questions of capacity and endurance. The largest commercially available SSDs now come in ...

Flash is an alien technology for disk users. I've noted before that flash drives can have really terrible write performance, but until I ran into it myself I had no idea how bad flash write ...