Why eMLC is No Longer Necessary
There is a lot of confusion today when I meet with customers on what constitutes enterprise flash. Some array vendors claim eMLC (Enterprise MLC) flash is an absolute necessity for a reliable all flash array. This is a myth but I am afraid I can take my share of the blame. Five years ago, I made the switch from…
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Entering the Golden Decade of Flash
Last week was the occasion for a relatively unknown but incredibly important event in the flash world. The International Solid State Circuit Conference (ISSCC) is a yearly event in San Francisco where the top flash designers get together. The flash industry tends to be a small, secretive community, but this is the one time of…
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Take a picture. It’ll last longer.
I’ve spent my entire career in the storage industry, and it’s evolved into working with NAND flash. I’ve developed numerous consumer and enterprise products with it, and there’s a misperception about flash technology that I’d like to address. The common and prevalent misconception about NAND Flash: that NAND life is between 3,000-100,000 write cycles and…
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