Innovations in Date storage Systems you should be Abreast of

It seems like technology has got wings and is flying like a free bird. New innovation emerges every day or so only to leave us bewitched with potentiality of making our tasks easier and hassle-free. Flash Data Storage segment is certainly no exception, and has seen plenty of innovations changing the way we store, share and spread the data. From NAND flash drives to error correction codes, technologies to talk about are galore. Here, we’ve compiled a list of some key innovations in flash storage system you should be definitely abreast of.    

SMART: Self Monitoring Analysis & Report Technology

If you have ever lost your data to due to the hard drive failure or unexpected power cut, you’ll certainly value this advancement. SMART comes as a monitoring system and enables you to detect various indicators of drive reliability. If your computer hard disk drives are embedded with SMART, you will get prior notice about the erosion in your hard drive due to Bad Blocks, temperature, erase count, or unexpected power loss count. As a user, you could determine the right time to change the drive so as to prevent the data loss.

NAND Flash Storage

Probably the most appreciated of all, NAND flash storage technique has excelled the way flash memory had read, written and erased the data. Available in appealing shapes and sizes, NAND flash storage devices (SATA SSD) are smarter, faster and less power hungry than the traditional hard disk drives. The data stored is reflected by electrical charges stuffed in a NAND cell. And yes, you don’t need to worry if you drop your storage drive even from a multi-storey building.

Bad Block Management

If you’re considering of improving the reliability and endurance of your NAND flash drive, Bad Block Management won’t disappoint you. Despite the fact that flash isn't a magnetic storage, it too can experience the cases of bad blocks which cam harm the drive’s power of writing and reading the data. Bad Block Management comes as a rescue in such case. It not only yields improvement but also increase the life of a solid-state device. Once bad blocks are identifies, they would be sent to the pool of Bad Blocks and the data-write will be done in other spare blocks.

ECG: Error Correction Code

It is a mechanism that detects and rectifies the errors when a unit of data is sent for reading. A new code is calculated and then compared with the code generated when the data was stored. The data is safe and error free in case the codes match. But if they don’t, data is sent for the correction to the controller before sending to the end user.

Pseudo SLC

Pseudo SLC promises you the reliability and performance of SLC at the cost of MLC. It doesn’t require a special flash structure and can be used with the MLC memory controller. Its write endurance is much better than MLC. Besides, it can be applied to higher density flash as well.