• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.343-348
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• 2022

Recently, With the recent rapid development of technology, the amount of data generated by various systems is increasing, and enterprise servers and data centers that have to handle large amounts of big data need to apply high-stability and high-performance storage devices even if costs increase. In such systems, SSD(solid state disk) that provide high performance of read/write are often used as storage devices. However, due to the characteristics of reading and writing on a page-by-page basis, erasing operations on a block basis, and erassing-before-writing, there is a problem that performance is degraded when duplicate writes occur. Therefore, in order to delay this performance degradation problem, over-provision technology of SSD has been applied internally. However, since over-provided technologies have the disadvantage of consuming a lot of storage space instead of performance, the application of inefficient technologies above the right performance has a problem of over-costing. In this paper, we proposed a method of measuring the performance and cost incurred when various over-provisions are applied in an SSD and predicting the system-optimized over-provided ratio based on this. Through this research, we expect to find a trade-off with costs to meet the performance requirements in systems that process big data.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.139-144
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• 2020

Recently, the electronic equipment industry has become active due to the continuous increase in portable storage media with high-speed information communication, and in particular, the production of SSD(Solid State Drives) for miniaturization of mobile devices and high-speed information communication has increased rapidly. When the SSD is ejecting in the SSD test gender, the necessary ejecting force must be kept constant to have a lifespan applicable to the test device. When the ejecting force increased, it leads to wear of the link for ejecting, which causes a problem in that repeated durability decreases and the ejecting of the SSD becomes impossible. In this paper, the repeated durability test analysis according to the material and the reducing ejecting force design were performed to increase the life of the test gender for SSD inspection. The wear level of the pusher head and ejector was analyzed through repeated durability tests according to the material of the pusher head. The validity of the design was verified through the ejecting force test and repeated durability test of the Test gender, which was designed by carrying out the design to reduce the size and ejecting force of the test gender.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.23 no.7
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• pp.428-433
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• 2017

Recently, the demand for high performance non-volatile memory storage devices that can replace existing hard disks has been increasing in environments requiring high performance computing such as data-centers and social network services. The performance of such non-volatile memory can greatly depend on the interface between the host and the storage device. With the evolution of storage interfaces, the non-volatile memory express (NVMe) interface has emerged, which can replace serial attached SCSI and serial ATA (SAS/SATA) interfaces based on existing hard disks. The NVMe interface has a higher level of scalability and provides lower latency than traditional interfaces. In this paper, an evaluation and analysis are conducted of the performance of NVMe storage devices through various workloads. We also compare and evaluate the cost efficiency of NVMe SSD and SATA SSD.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.3 no.11
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• pp.409-418
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• 2014

The amount of data located in storage servers has dramatically increased with the growth in cloud and social networking services. Storage systems with very large capacities may suffer from poor reliability and long latency, problems which can be addressed by the use of a hybrid disk, in which mechanical and flash memory storage are combined. The Linux-based SSD(solid-state disk) uses a caching technique based on the DM-cache utility. We assess the limitations of DM-cache by evaluating its performance in diverse environments, and identify problems with the caching policy that it operates in response to various commands. This policy is effective in reducing latency when Linux is running in native mode; but when Linux is installed as a guest operating systems on a virtual machine, the overhead incurred by caching actually reduces performance.

• Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.9-15
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• 2022

NAND flash memory is used as a medium for various storage devices due to its high data processing speed with low power consumption. However, since the read processing speed of data is about 10 times faster than the write processing speed, various studies are being conducted to improve the speed difference. In particular, flash dedicated buffer management policies have been studied to improve write speed. However, SSD(solid state disks), which has recently been used for various purposes, is more vulnerable to read performance than write performance. In this paper, we find out why read performance is slower than write performance in SSD composed of NAND flash memory and study buffer management policies to improve it. The buffer management policy proposed in this paper proposes a method of improving the speed of a flash-based storage device by analyzing the pattern of read data and applying a policy of pre-reading data to be requested in the future from NAND flash memory. It also proves the effectiveness of the read-ahead policy through simulation.

• Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.81-86
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• 2023

SSD (solid state disk), which is flash memory-based storage device, has the advantages of high density and fast data processing. Therefore, it is being utilized as a storage device for high-capacity data storage systems that manage rapidly increasing big data. However, flash memory, a storage media, has a physical limitation that when the write/erase operation is repeated more than a certain number of times, the cells are worn out and can no longer be used. In this paper, we propose a method for converting defective multi-bit cells into single-bit cells to reduce the defect rate of flash memory and extend its lifetime. The proposed idea distinguishes the defects and treatment methods of multi-bit cells and single-bit cells, which have different physical characteristics but are treated as the same defect, and converts the expected defective multi-bit cells into single-bit cells to improve the defect rate and extend the overall lifetime. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed idea by measuring the increased lifetime of SSD through simulations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06a
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• pp.230-232
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• 2012

SSD(Solid State Disk)는 다수의 플래시 메모리로 구성되며 기존의 하드디스크(HDD) 보다 데이터 전송 속도가 빠르고 강한 내구성, 저소음, 저전력의 장점을 가지고 있다. 하지만 제자리 덮어쓰기가 안되므로 SSD 공간에서 무효데이터가 차지하는 비중이 높아지며, 한 셀당 쓰기 및 삭제 횟수가 제한되어 있다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 무효데이터와 입력데이터의 중복성 검사를 통하여 무효데이터를 재활용하는 중복제거 기법을 제안한다. 무효데이터의 재활용과 중복제거를 통하여 SSD의 마모도 감소와 가비지컬렉션의 빈도를 낮춰서 I/O 속도의 향상을 기대할 수 있다. 실험을 통하여 무효데이터를 재활용 하는 경우와 유효데이터를 활용한 중복제거 방법의 성능을 비교하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.176-178
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• 2012

SSD는 제자리 덮어쓰기가 안되기 때문에 가비지 컬렉션 연산을 수행한다. 가비지 컬렉션은 동작 시간이 긴 삭제 연산과 유효페이지 복사 연산이 자주 발생하여 SSD의 Active Time을 길게하고 전력소모를 증가시킨다. 본 논문에서는 SSD에서 입력데이터와 일치하는 무효데이터를 재활용함으로써 가비지 컬렉션 횟수를 줄이고, 기존 방법과 비교하여 소모된 전력량을 측정하였다. 무효데이터 재활용 기법을 사용할 때 활성시간의 전력소모가 약 32% 감소했고 전체 전력소모량은 약 17% 감소함을 확인했다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.48 no.7
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• pp.48-56
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• 2011

Recently, new storage device SSD(Solid State Disk) based on NAND flash memory is gradually replacing HDD(Hard Disk Drive) in mobile device and thus a variety of research efforts are going on to find the cost-effective ways of performance improvement. By increasing the NAND flash channels in order to enhance the bandwidth through parallel processing, DRAM buffer which acts as a buffer cache between host(PC) and NAND flash has become the bottleneck point. To resolve this problem, this paper proposes an efficient low-cost scheme to increase SSD performance by improving DRAM buffer bandwidth through scheduling techniques which utilize DRAM multi-banks. When both host and NAND flash multi-channels request access to DRAM buffer concurrently, the proposed technique checks their destination and then schedules appropriately considering properties of DRAMs. It can reduce overheads of bank active time and row latency significantly and thus optimizes DRAM buffer bandwidth utilization. The result reveals that the proposed technique improves the SSD performance by 47.4% in read and 47.7% in write operation respectively compared to conventional methods with negligible changes and increases in the hardware.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.1151-1158
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• 2020

In order to investigate the speed profile of data I/O of HDD, we have developed an utility program. The application to HDD reveals the detail properties of the speed profile of HDD and the relation between the cylinder structure of HDD and the velocity profile. For the extent application, the experiment of the large volume storage was performed, and the profile of SSD media, which is known as the new rapid media, was measured. The new M.2 NVME SSD, which has the ability of over 10Gbps, we can compare the velocities between cp under linux O/S and the utility, and shows that the performance of the utility can be reliable.