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What are the hardware and/or firmware innovations that allow you to offload compute tasks from the CPU to get better performance?

Category: ScaleFlux CSD 3000

In the current generation of CSD (computational storage drive), we have implemented compression in hardware (vastly more power & performance efficient than using CPUs). To get all the benefits of compression in the SSD, we have to develop a novel flash management process to manage the variable lengths of data that result from compression (vs the fixed length blocks that are typically managed by SSD controllers).

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