Work

Leveraging Software Fault Tolerance for Longer Flash Hardware Lifespan

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: In the context of data center computing, the carbon emission incurred during the manufacturing of solid-state drives (SSDs), called embodied carbon, is increasingly overtaking the emissions caused by powering these drives throughout their operational lifetime. Out of an abundance of caution, current SSDs are designed to fail long before the internal flash components are completely unusable. Although this choice may be appropriate for single-disk systems, distributed storage systems can already tolerate individual SSD failures through redundancy.

Source: Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems

DOI: 10.1145/3713082.3730386

Authors: Aviad Zuck, Rob Johnson, Donald E. Porter, Dan Tsafrir

Institutions: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Broadcom (United States), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Language: English

Topic: Advanced Data Storage Technologies

Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: National Science Foundation, Universitas Brawijaya

Awards: NSF-BSF: SaTC: CORE: Small: Rowhammering Peripherals, G728018018, Collaborative Research: SaTC: TTP: Medium: Toward Complete, User-Friendly, and Trustworthy Confidential Computing with Gramine