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In cost-sensitive deployments, RAID arrays may combine SSDs with different performance levels. Such heterogeneity arises when aging SSDs degrade yet remain usable, or when failed drives are replaced with new devices of explicitly better…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Jialin Liu , Liang Shi , Dingcui Yu

The current flash memory technology focuses on the cost minimization of its static storage capacity. However, the resulting approach supports a relatively small number of program-erase cycles. This technology is effective for consumer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Eyal En Gad , Eitan Yaakobi , Anxiao , Jiang , Jehoshua Bruck

In this work, we propose a novel coding scheme which based on the characteristics of NAND flash cells, generates codewords that reduce the energy consumption and improve the reliability of solid-state drives. This novel coding scheme,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Armin Ahmadzadeh , Omid Hajihassani , Pooria Taheri , Seyed Hossein Khasteh

Recently, the capital expenditure of flash-based Solid State Driver (SSDs) keeps declining and the storage capacity of SSDs keeps increasing. As a result, all-flash storage systems have started to become more economically viable for large…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Zhengyu Yang , Manu Awasthi , Mrinmoy Ghosh , Janki Bhimani , Ningfang Mi

Today, flash memory are strongly used in the embedded system domain. NAND flash memories are the building block of main secondary storage systems. Such memories present many benefits in terms of data density, I/O performance, shock…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Pierre Olivier , Jalil Boukhobza , Eric Senn

To mitigate the impact of noise and interference on multi-level-cell (MLC) flash memory with the use of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, we propose a dynamic write-voltage design scheme considering the asymmetric property of raw bit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Runbin Cai , Yi Fang , Zhifang Shi , Lin Dai , Guojun Han

Raw bit errors are common in NAND flash memory and will increase in the future. These errors reduce flash reliability and limit the lifetime of a flash memory device. We aim to improve flash reliability with a multitude of low-cost…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Yixin Luo

Recommendation system has gained a large popularity for a variety of personalized suggestion tasks, but the ever-increasing number of user data makes real-time processing of recommendation systems difficult. NAND flash memory-based…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jangho Baik , Sunghyun Kim , Gisan Ji , Wonbo Shim , Sungju Ryu

SSDs are emerging storage devices which unlike HDDs, do not have mechanical parts and therefore, have superior performance compared to HDDs. Due to the high cost of SSDs, entirely replacing HDDs with SSDs is not economically justified.…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Reza Salkhordeh , Mostafa Hadizadeh , Hossein Asadi

In the present paper, a modification of the Index-less Indexed Flash Codes (ILIFC) for flash memory storage system is presented. Although the ILIFC proposed by Mahdavifar et al. has excellent worst case performance, the ILIFC can be further…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-18 Riki Suzuki , Tadashi Wadayama

Bulk bitwise operations, i.e., bitwise operations on large bit vectors, are prevalent in a wide range of important application domains, including databases, graph processing, genome analysis, cryptography, and hyper-dimensional computing.…

Index-less Indexed Flash Code (ILIFC) is a coding scheme for flash memories, in which one bit of a data sequence is stored in a slice consisting of several cells but the index of the bit is stored implicitly. Although several modified ILIFC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Akira Yamawaki , Hiroshi Kamabe , Shan Lu

NVMe Flash-based SSDs are widely deployed in data centers to cache working sets of large-scale web services. As data centers face increasing sustainability demands, such as reduced carbon emissions, efficient management of Flash…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Michael Allison , Arun George , Javier Gonzalez , Dan Helmick , Vikash Kumar , Roshan Nair , Vivek Shah

Recently, 3D SSDs are widely adopted in PCs, data centers, and cloud storage systems. To increase capacity, high bit-density cells, such as Triple-Level Cell (TLC), are utilized within 3D SSDs. However, due to the inferior performance of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xufeng Yang , Zhengjian Cong , Congming Gao

This paper demonstrates that adopting out-of-place writes is essential for database systems to fully leverage SSD performance and extend SSD lifespan. We propose a set of out-of-place optimizations that collectively reduce write…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Bohyun Lee , Tobias Ziegler , Viktor Leis

Quad-level cell (QLC) flash offers significant benefits in cost and capacity, but its limited reliability leads to frequent read retries, which severely degrade read performance. A common strategy in high-density flash storage is to program…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yanyun Wang , Dingcui Yu , Yina Lv , Yunpeng Song , Yumiao Zhao , Liang Shi

Storage-class memory (SCM) combines the benefits of a solid-state memory, such as high-performance and robustness, with the archival capabilities and low cost of conventional hard-disk magnetic storage. Among candidate solid-state…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Wonil Choi , Mohammad Arjomand , Myoungsoo Jung , Mahmut Kandemir

Caches in Content-Centric Networks (CCN) are increasingly adopting flash memory based storage. The current flash cache technology stores all files with the largest possible expiry date, i.e. the files are written in the memory so that they…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Samta Shukla , Alhussein A. Abouzeid

For large scale distributed storage systems, flash memories are an excellent choice because flash memories consume less power, take lesser floor space for a target throughput and provide faster access to data. In a traditional distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-02-26 Srimugunthan , K. Gopinath

In modern solid-state drives (SSDs), the indexing of flash pages is a critical component in their storage controllers. It not only affects the data access performance, but also determines the efficiency of the precious in-device DRAM…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Jinghan Sun , Shaobo Li , Yunxin Sun , Chao Sun , Dejan Vucinic , Jian Huang