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Flash (solid-state) memory is the latest technology to change the data storage landscape. ChannelScience has guided many companies through storage technology transitions. And with over 20 years of data storage experience to draw on, we know what it takes for a new storage technology to compete in one of the most challenging technology fields around.
ChannelScience's expertise is working at the bit-level, ... and below. We focus on understanding the physics of the atoms that store each data bit and the recording and readback processes themselves. Then we develop coding, detection, and signal processing algorithms to make a practical, economical, robust architecture for reliably storing and retrieving data, utilizing your new technology.
ChannelScience is on the conference advisory board for the annual Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, California. This is a great conference for networking in the industry and for getting up-to-date information directly from the top professionals in the field.
To support the growing use of embedded flash memory, hybrid hard drives (HHD), and solid-state drives (SSD) ChannelScience has expanded our relationship with KnowledgeTek to provide a 2-day Flash Technology seminar. Included in this seminar is a section on ECC (error correction coding) and a discussion of data recovery. This pdf provides and illustration of the recovering of a corrupted picture file by applying ECC decoding.
As new technologies for data storage continue to emerge, it may be helpful to keep these few "Data Storage Truths" in mind.
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Data Storage Truths
ChannelScience's View
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Uses have always been found for more storage capacity, in some market segment.
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The RATE of density improvement is one of the most important parameters for any new storage technology.
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Density improvements that are not currently needed to increase the capacity, can best be used to increase manufacturing yield.
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As storage capacity increases, users save time, because they don't need to take the time to decide what to keep -- they can keep everything. However, this approach shifts the costs to backups and search.
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Reductions in the cost per unit storage ($/GB) lead to new applications
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Since before the time of the first cave paintings, mankind has stored data. The use of stored data has directly contributed to the advancement of civilization. Mankind's need to store data will not change. The medium we use to store it on will. Let us help you navigate the next storage technology transition.
Please contact ChannelScience for a free initial consultation.
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