John and Ben discuss SSDs, data transfer bottlenecks and the evolution of PC data storage architectures.With Ben Alexander and John Chidgey.Bus Communication:
Parallel Communication
Industry Standard Architecture
Advanced Technology Attachment
Parallel ATA
Serial ATA
8b/10b encoding
Conventional PCI
PCI Express
Memory:
Non-Volatile Memory
Field Electron Emission
Hot-Carrier Injection
Tunnel Injection
Flash Memory
Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor
MOSFET
Flash Memory Interface Tutorial
Introduction to Flash Memory (PDF)
Should You Upgrade to SSD
SandForce
SandForce Driven Program
Solid-State Drive
Data Striping
Optimizing Flash (PPT)
Flash Translation Layers (PPT)
SSDs:
OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD Review 240GB
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Samsung and Toshiba (SandForce) SSDs Go Head To Head
Miscellaneous:
Basecamp Next’s Caching Hardware
37 Signals Still Happily Scaling On Moore RAM and SSDs
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