Survey Of Solid State Drives, Characteristics, Technology, And Applications

NAND flash storage is a common digital storage architecture, because of its affordability and mature design, NAND flash is a dominant storage technology used in embedded systems, and general purpose computers in the form of solid state drives (SSD). The use of SSD in datacenters is less common, because of reliability and cost concerns of the storage, its use in datacenters is an area of active research. Other aspects of the technology being investigated are stacked layers of memory cells, optimization of flash controller algorithms, SSD and digital forensics, and storage class memories. The future challenges and directions for research are provided at the end.