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NAND Flash Copyback Command - Hidden Potential for Drive Corruption
Posted by Samuel Nakhimovsky on Tuesday, 03 Jun 2014
Usage of NAND Flash COPYBACK Command Causes Drive Corruption and Data Loss
One of the "Beneficial" features that was added into NAND Flash operation was the COPYBACK Command.
Also known as the INTERNAL DATA MOVE (IDM) operations, Copyback was promoted by the NAND Flash vendors as a performance increasing feature which enabled the data page to be copied from one memory location to another within a NAND device without transferring the data off-chip to a Flash controller.
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