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G. Kuppan ThirumalaiA Beginner's Guide to SSD Firmwarehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9888-6_10

10. User Data Flow

Gopi Kuppan Thirumalai1  
(1)
San Jose, CA, USA
 

In this chapter, we will discuss the user data flow in solid-state drive (SSD) firmware. We will start by discussing the write path, which is the process of writing data from the host to the NAND flash memory. We will then discuss the read path, which is the process of reading data from the NAND flash memory and transferring it back to the host.

Write Path

In SSD firmware, the write path refers to the process of writing data from the host to the NAND flash memory. When the host sends a write ...

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