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FTL Organization: A Bad Approach

Understand the drawbacks of the direct-mapped Flash Translation Layer (FTL) approach in SSDs. Explore how it impacts performance through costly block erasures and write amplification, and why it leads to reliability issues by uneven wear on flash memory.

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Direct mapped

The simplest organization of an FTL would be something we call direct mapped. In this approach, a read to the logical page NN is mapped directly to a read of a physical page ...