Russ Croman - EEWeb

TECHNICAL ARTICLE
NAND Evolution
and the Future of
Solid State Drives
Eli Tiomkin
Director Business Marketing
In the quest for achieving greater data storage
capacity, lower prices, and smaller footprints, SSD
evolution may be mired by unexpected pitfalls of
quality and reliability.
Some technology luminaries have taken the position
that the solid state drive (SSD) market will eclipse other
electronic storage methods and eventually replace all
types of storage with SSDs by the end of the decade. For
such a forecast to be viable, the current state of the SSD
market will have to undergo a hefty series of transitions
and technological developments, many of which are still
quite a few years out. In the meantime, leaving predictions
to fend for themselves, SSDs are gaining greater
acceptance in the storage market with their offering of
high performance, relative low power, smaller footprints,
wide range of capacities and the ability to withstand
more physically-challenging installations, some notable
advantages over traditional hard disk drives (HDDs).
Much like traditional rotating HDD technology is changing
and evolving to keep pace with the ever-increasing
demands for computer storage, so is NAND Flash, the
EEWeb | Electrical Engineering Community Visit www.eeweb.com 15
TECHNICAL ARTICLE