Failsafe SSD drives

Everyone knows that in the computer world, having an SSD on the computer makes it start up much faster and that information is stored faster and with less consumption.

It is the advantage of having a fully electronic hard disk (based on chips) and without moving parts. The downside is that when it fails (because everything ends up failing sooner or later) we have a serious problem on our computer.

The manufacturers of these devices ensure that they have the highest quality information storage chips to last as long as possible without problems. But they end up failing sooner or later.

That is why Samsung’s announcement of having achieved a fail-in-place SSD or FIP (fail-safe) disk is very important.

SSD disks store the basic information of ones and zeros in the logic gates (usually NAND gates) that have the chips. And these new Samsung SSDs have additional logic gates that, if necessary, can replace the logical gates that fail, so that the disk information is not lost.

This is said to be very easy, it is complex to achieve and requires complex computing that monitors and controls the operation of all the logic gates of the chips, to detect when one of them starts to fail, and make it be replaced by another.
The objective is that the SSD disk remains operational and that the information is not lost.

As is easily imaginable, this is very important for large databases that have hundreds or thousands of SSDs. Having more reliable devices reduces maintenance and repair costs.

And as the data storage needs increase enormously every day, it is to be expected to have a good reception in the market.
In the beginning Samsung focuses these devices to the business of large data servers, but as time goes by and their costs go down, they will end up reaching the personal computer market and we can all benefit from having more reliable data SSD discs.

So it’s good news for everyone.