Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Micron announces the ClearNAND which embeds error correction in flash memory chips

Micron announces the ClearNAND which embeds error correction in flash memory chips

SSD drives have been awesome as they're lightning fast and durable, but sometimes you'll get the rather rare failures of SSD, like bits fail, data error and corruption, and deterioration of bytes. That's why the famous mighty SandForce will at times get some hate mails for breaking down an SSD due to the bugs that it has, and shouldering too much loads on its own. That's why Micron has developed this new ClearNAND chips.

They're meant to offload some loads of the memory controller like SandForce. The ClearNAND chip has a 24-bit error correction engine, so your drive's host controller doesn't have to shoulder that much amount of load, and do its work swiftly. This just made the SSD a whole lot more awesome than it ever been. Micron says the new chips are available right now in 25nm sizes.

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