FTL design exploration in reconfigurable high-performance SSD for server applications

• DOI: 10.1145/1542275.1542324
• Publication Date: 2009-06-09T12:44:24Z
• Authors: Ji-Yong Shin; Zeng-Lin Xia; Ning-Yi Xu; Rui Gao; Xiong-Fei Cai; Seungryoul Maeng; Feng-Hsiung Hsu
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

Solid-state disks (SSDs) are becoming widely used in personal computers and expected to replace a great portion of magnetic servers supercomputers. Although many high-speed SSDs present the market, both design hardware architecture details flash translation layer (FTL) not well known. Meanwhile, systems requiring high-end storages, specially tuned can perform better than generic ones, because applications such environment usually fixed.