Phison Weighs in On the Promises and Pitfalls of Software-Enabled Flash

An open-source project is looking to upend how storage architecture runs. To see potential gains, however, developers will have to invest in both hardware and software. This TechTarget story takes aim at software-enabled flash (SEF), exploring its potential and pitfalls with several experts, including Sebastien Jean, Phison Chief Technology Officer.

In the article, Jean pushes back on SEF, pointing out the main cost of an SSD is the NAND, and removing management from the controller or SSD RAM does not lead to significant cost savings. He also poses a question of his own about moving DRAM and the SSD compute to the server.

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