Filing in a flash

  • Authors:
  • James Eldridge

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Spectrum
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

A nonvolatile, rugged, sequentially accessed flash memory that provides an attractive solid-state alternative to disk drives is described. The advantages of the NAND EEPROM (electrically erasable and programmable read-only memory) for file storage, including mass memory storage, are discussed. Its reliability and cost-effectiveness are considered