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Flash Disk Drives

Wear

insulatior ware = electrons may migrate through lattice

Broken lattice bonds = lattice traps electrons

Write amplification happens when pages are moved from block column to empty space so that block column can be erased.

Data sequentially written minimizes write amplification

SSD disks do garbage collection

HHD: 75 Billion I/O in 5 years
SSD: 1.433 Billion I/O in 5 years

Monitoring SSD wear

SATA SMART ID 202 repports life remaining

Total bytes read

Total blocks written life

SSD TBWL
3.5 pb

seconds in 5 years
means ~9K iops/second allowed

Enterprize grade drives

Steady state performance, write performance

Enterprise assunmes no idle time for write management

Personal drives assumes bursty activity
Lots of idle time for write management

trim

Host tells host to inform ssd that data is no longer used
Rahter than wait for newer version of existing data

Not honored on enterprise drives

power off data retention

Vendor will quote power off retention time.

secure erease

non-interuptable block erase command for all blocks on the drive


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