Flash is a type of Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM).
Different from traditional magnetic disks, flash memories have no moving parts and are …

Over the last twenty years the interfaces for accessing persistent storage within a computer
system have remained essentially unchanged. Simply put, seek, read and write have …

The flash storage is a type of nonvolatile semiconductor device that is operated continuously
and has been substituting the hard disk or secondary memory in several storage markets …

The performance and capacity of solid-state drives (SSDs) are continuously improving to
meet the increasing demands of modern data-intensive applications. Unfortunately …

The solid-state disk (SSD) is becoming increasingly popular, especially among users whose
workloads exhibit substantial random access patterns. As SSD competes with the hard disk …

Use of flash memory as a storage medium is becoming popular in diverse computing
environments. However, because of differences in interface, flash memory requires a hard …

Current FTL schemes have inevitable limitations in terms of memory requirement,
performance, garbage collection overhead, and scalability. To overcome these limitations …

Random writes significantly limit the application of Solid State Drive (SSD) in the I/O
intensive applications such as scientific computing, Web services, and database. While …

Modern persistent Key/Value stores are designed to meet the demand for high transactional
throughput and high data ingestion rates. Still, they rely on backwards-compatible storage …

The flash-memory based Solid State Drive (SSD) presents a promising storage solution for
increasingly critical data-intensive applications due to its low latency (high throughput), high …