An Endurance-Aware Metadata Allocation Strategy for MLC NAND Flash Memory Storage Systems.

This paper presents a reliability-aware metadata allocation strategy called scatter-single-level cell (SLC) for multiple-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory storage systems. In scatter-SLC, metadata is kept in least significant bit (LSB) pages and corresponding most significant bit (MSB) pages are bypassed. Without partitioning SLC and MLC blocks, scatter-SLC can eliminate the unbalanced lifetime b...