Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, SST designs,
manufactures and markets a diversified range of memory and non-memory products
for high volume applications in the digital consumer, networking, wireless
communications and Internet computing markets. Leveraging its proprietary,
patented SuperFlash technology, SST is a leading provider of nonvolatile memory
solutions with product families that include various densities of high
functionality flash memory components and flash mass storage products. The
Company also offers its SuperFlash technology for embedded applications through
its broad network of world- class manufacturing partners and technology
licensees, including TSMC, which offers it under its trademark Emb-FLASH. SST's
non-memory products include NAND controller-based products, smart card ICs and
modules, flash microcontrollers and radio frequency ICs and modules. Further
information on SST can be found on the company's Web site at http://www.sst.com.
See also:-
SST
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's comments:- March 2009 - SST markets a
PATA compatible
SSD chip with upto 8GB
capacity called the
NANDrive.
Designed for embedded applications the 12mm x 24mm LBGA package
SSD has sustained R/W
speeds upto 30MB/s and 8MB/s respectively. Security features include a factory
pre-programmed unique ID, and a user programmable ID.
In April 2010
- SST sold its SSD product line to a new startup founded by SST's founder -
called Greenliant
Systems.
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| Are MLC SSDs Safe
in Enterprise Apps? |
This is a follow up article to the
popular
SSD Myths and
Legends which in
2007
demolished the myth that flash memory wear-out (a comfort blanket beloved
by many
RAM SSD makers at the
time) precluded the use of
SLC flash in heavy
duty datacenters.
Are MLC SSDs Safe? - has also become a classic
and very popular article. It looks at the risks posed by MLC Nand Flash SSDs
which - having hatched from their breeeding ground as
chip modules in
cellphones - have morphed and crept into
hard disk form
factors.
In a
notebook
(where you aren't exactly aiming for a 99.999% uptime quality data
experience) MLC SSDs can be a good thing from the
reliability and
cost point of view.
But in the datacenter?
First published in
2008 this
article has been extensively updated in 2010 - to answer common reader
questions - and because the risks from newer MLC flash are even greater than
they were when the article originally appeared.
It starts down a
familiar lane but includes many technology twists. You'll realize that patching
the hole in the bottom of the leaking data bucket isn't much good - if the whole
bucket can tip over and splash your data beyond
ECC limits due
to factors which no SSD
controller guarantees to protect you from. That's because there's a lot
more to MLC data integrity risk than endurance! |
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Knowing what these risks are can help you
decide if your enterprise app is inside or outside the vulnerable to data
loss zone.
...read the
article | | | |
