Paper Title: Off Module Power Loss Protection: Cost efficiencies for enterprise systems

Paper Abstract: Boot drives for enterprise systems need to ensure data integrity in the event of system power losses and system crashes. As such, these systems are typically configured with expensive enterprise grade drives with on-board power loss protection (PLP). Most hosts/systems have integrated PLP capabilities and the PCI-SIG's proposed "off module power loss protection"€ standard will expand the system's PLP coverage to the boot drive. This will enable the use of more cost-effective client grade drives for system boot applications. The concept of Off Module Power Loss Protection involves moving the detection and backup power mechanisms to the host system or a daughter card, and FLUSHing any acknowledged data in the volatile memory when power loss is detected. Off Module Power Loss Protection is in the process of being standardized by the PCI-SIG, and this talk will provide a review of the technical aspects of implementing OMP in Hardware and Firmware for an enterprise-level boot drive.

Paper Author: Rob Sykes, Sr Distinguished Engineer, Toshiba

Author Bio: Rob Sykes has over 17 years of storage experience holding senior positions in both engineering and marketing roles. Rob currently works at Toshiba and is responsible for Enterprise, dDtacenter and Client MRDs, SoC strategy and roadmaps. Rob has led multinational firmware teams and has knowledge of firmware architecture (FIL, HIL, FTL), and SSD hardware architecture knowledge / ASIC architecture, Toshiba NAND knowledge (BiCS), host interface knowledge (PCIe/ NVMe, SAS, and SATA). Rob has launched many SSD products over the years selling in their millions. Many of these SSDs have won awards for best in class performance and endurance. Before working with SSDs Rob was also a key contributor to external storage (HDD) industry and successfully launched 10s of millions of product with several companies. Rob has presented at FMS several times in the past covering FTL architectures, LDPC and SoC architecture.. Rob has an MSc from the University of Bristol (UK) Presenter Company/Organization: Toshiba America Electronic Components Brief description of the organization: Leading manufacturer of Flash Memory and SSDs