Impact of the NAND Flash Power Supply on Solid State Drives Reliability and Performance

Autor: Cristian Zambelli, Luca Crippa, Lorenzo Zuolo, Piero Olivo, Rino Micheloni
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability. 18:247-255
ISSN: 1558-2574
1530-4388
DOI: 10.1109/tdmr.2018.2819720
Popis: The NAND flash memory technology is the fundamental building block of storage systems like solid state drives. Their reliability drastically impacts the design choices of the error recovery flows exploited to improve drive’s performance, which progressively degrades as the number of bit errors to be corrected increases. Among the many causes producing errors, it is found that the NAND flash power supply plays a non-negligible role. In this paper, we will show how the drive’s performance degradation rate measured by the sustainable bandwidth, read latency, and quality of service metrics, heavily depends on the power supply. The results will show that by using a lower power supply in endeavor to reduce the energy consumption of the drive will yield a significant bandwidth (up to 44.4 kIOPS), latency (up to $504~\boldsymbol {\mu }\text{s}$ ), and quality-of-service (up to 1.5 ms) detriment. Counterintuitively, we will show that the overall energy consumption per byte will increase (up to 4.5 times) in specific working conditions of the drive.
Databáze: OpenAIRE