Ways to Save with
Flash SuperCharger
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Even though dramatically faster than standard Flash FTL solutions, Flash SuperCharger is an extremely inexpensive solution, costing just pennies per gigabyte. Never the less, Flash SuperCharger uniquely offers Android Original Device Manufacturers the opportunity to significantly reduce manufacturing and use costs of such devices. Here's a short list of the major areas of possible savings:
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Replace MLC with TLC. With the certainty about wear that Flash SuperCharger gives you, you can build phones and tablets which use less expensive TLC Flash. |
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Consider non embedded Flash parts. Many current devices use eMMC parts that combine the SD controller and flash as a single part. While this saves space, from a cost point of view, a stock micro SDHC card and separate controller will have a lower build cost and also protect your supply chain by allowing multiple suppliers of the Flash component. Flash SuperCharger gets rid of the wear amplification problems associated with many non-embedded parts.
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Reduce the rate of RAM growth. The long life of commodity Flash in a SuperCharger environment makes swap space viable, and the high write speed of Flash SuperCharger makes it perform well. Flash storage is much less expensive than RAM and permits more responsiveness to user needs. |
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Reduce wireless traffic. Both congestion and the absence of meaningful local caches increase the number of retransmissions of data. Faster writes let software designers reduce these problems. |
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Ready to go, now! SuperCharger works with any hardware that can function with Linux. Thus, it operates with both SDHC hardware as well as eMMC assemblies. SuperCharger can be incorporated into existing Android builds with only minor partition layout changes. Upgrades to current (and future) Android releases are supported but are not required and all existing applications run unmodified.
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