13th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2007)
Analyzing Access Timing of Removable Flash Media
Daegu, Korea
August 21-August 24
ISBN: 0-7695-2975-5
Flash memories could be a basis for mass storage with real-time guarantees if a suitable model for access timing could be established. We describe Flanatoo, a suite of benchmarks which extracts relevant timing information from removable flash media such as Compact Flash (CF) and USB flash drives. We identified three major timing in- fluence factors: the access block size, the accessed address and (to a lesser degree) the written bit pattern. Despite numerous timing anomalies we argue that removable flash media behave more predictably than hard disks and are indeed a potential basis for real-time mass storage.
Citation:
Daniel Parthey, Robert Baumgartl, "Analyzing Access Timing of Removable Flash Media," rtcsa, pp.510-515, 13th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2007), 2007