Month: July 2015
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...
