Antiwear Leveling Design for SSDs With Hybrid ECC Capability

Abstract

With the joint considerations of reliability and performance, hybrid error correction code (ECC) becomes an option in the designs of solid-state drives (SSDs). Unfortunately, wear leveling (WL) might result in the early performance degradation to SSDs, which is common with a limited number of P/E cycles, due to the efforts to delay the bit-error-rate growth. In this paper, an anti-WL design is proposed to avoid such a performance problem so that the performance of SSDs with hybrid ECC capability can be improved without sacrificing their reliability. The capability of the proposed design was evaluated by a series of experiments, for which it was shown that the proposed design could greatly improve the read and write performance of SSDs up to 50% without affecting the endurance of the investigated SSDs, compared with traditional approaches.