Abstract
Flash memory is a non-volatile memory which can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. Its major advantages such as small physical size, no mechanical components, low power consumption, and high performance have made it likely to replace the magnetic disk drives in more and more systems. However, flash memory has four specific features which are different to the magnetic disk drives, and pose challenges to develop practical techniques: (1) Flash memory is erased in blocks, but written in pages. (2) A block has to be erased before writing data to the block. (3) A block of flash memory can only be written for a specified number of times. (4) Writing pages within a block should be done sequentially. This survey presents the architectures, technologies, and optimization methods employed by the existing flash memory based storage systems to tackle the challenges. I hope that this paper will encourage researchers to analyze, optimize, and develop practical techniques to improve the performance and reduce the energy consumption of flash memory based storage systems, by leveraging the existing methods and solutions.
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