Re:Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype
by wtallis on Thursday September 05, 2019 @05:27PM
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> Linux, for example, supports all the "weirdness" of flash with an MTD module which is low-resource enough for single-core sub 1GHz routers with 16MB and 32MB of RAM to handle.
Managing 16MB of SLC NOR flash is trivial for a 580MHz MIPS core with 32MB of DRAM. Managing 16TB of TLC NAND is completely different. There's a reason that SSDs almost always have 1GB of DRAM for every 1TB of NAND.
Managing 16MB of SLC NOR flash is trivial for a 580MHz MIPS core with 32MB of DRAM. Managing 16TB of TLC NAND is completely different. There's a reason that SSDs almost always have 1GB of DRAM for every 1TB of NAND.