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Flash memory is reliable, low-cost, low-power, semiconductor-based storage. After more than 20 years of development, flash is hitting the mainstream and changing the data storage industry. Dell is offering laptop computers with no hard disk drives - only flash-based "solid state drives". Intel writes about incorporating flash onto its motherboards. Microsoft's Windows Vista^TM operating system is counting on flash to change the boot up experience for millions of computer users. Even hard disk drive manufacturers are adding flash as a non-volatile cache to their new "hybrid hard disk drives". Does your company have a flash strategy?

This half-day seminar from KnowledgeTek provides data storage professionals a clear understanding of the concepts, possibilities, and drawbacks of flash storage. It is presented at a level appropriate for those with or without a technical background. You will learn what flash is and isn't; the basics of how it works; why flash has beaten hard disk drive in some applications; challenges and opportunities for its wider adoption; skepticism for claims of reliability, low-cost, and low-power; limitations for its future (does it hit a wall in 5 years?); and what is poised to replace it.

The future is coming...in a flash!

Introduction to Storage Systems Architectures of Storage Applications Performance Metrics Interfaces Current Capabilities The Markets   Storage Devices: Competing or Converging? Hard Disk Drives (HDD) Solid-State Drives (SSD) Hybrid Hard Drives (HHD) The Robson Alternative The Technology of Flash: An Overview NAND and NOR Read, Writing, and Erasing Fabrication Testing

The Flash Controller Architecture Error Correction Coding (ECC) Wear-Leveling Interfaces Future Trends Density, Speed, Capacity Reliability? Single-Level vs. Multi-Level Cells Emerging Technologies (FRAM, MRAM, PRAM...) HDD vs. SSD Conclusions References

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