Garbage collecting technology from OCZ

OCZ is already a well known name when it comes to Solid State Drives (SSDs), and this time round they will be working with their old controller partner Indilinx to develop new SSD technology which is capable of not only preserving data integrity, but eliminating long term performance decline as well. Known as ‘garbage collecting’, this process kicks in whenever an SSD is idle to seek out and clean flash memory cells that hold old or redundant data in order to create new clean blocks that are primed and ready for writing. This is a big deal because current SSDs are unable to flash memory cells that already contain data, regardless of whether that data fills a fraction of the cell itself. This results in existing data being read and then removed or rewritten with the newly added data. Such a setup will tend to see SSD performance deteriorate over time, especially when data has become more spread around. The OCZ/Indilinx solution is capable of turning even the ‘dirtiest’ SSD into one that has performance levels of within a few MBps of its original levels.