A Mirroring-Assisted Channel-RAID5 SSD for Mobile Applications.

Simply applying an existing redundant array of independent disks (RAID) technique to enhance data reliability within a single solid-state drive for safety-critical mobile applications significantly degrades performance. In this article, we first propose a new RAID5 architecture called channel-RAID5 with mirroring (CR5M) to alleviate the performance degradation problem. Next, an associated data reconstruction strategy called mirroring-assisted channel-level reconstruction (MCR) is developed to further shrink the window of vulnerability. Experimental results demonstrate that compared with channel-RAID5 (CR5), CR5M improves performance up to 40.2%. Compared with disk-oriented reconstruction, a traditional data reconstruction scheme, MCR on average improves data recovery speed by 7.5% while delivering a similar performance during reconstruction.