BiTMICRO^® Networks' solid state E-Disks^® use a proprietary Interleaved Reed-Solomon Error Correction Code (RS ECC) which is optimized for use with Flash memory. Our RS-ECC code delivers an accuracy of a probability of less than 10^-30 undetected data errors. It corrects up to six random byte errors per 528-byte blocks and detects burst errors up to nine bytes long.

Competing Flash disk drives use industry-standard EDAC/ECC code commonly found in hard disk drives designed for serial bit streams that is not optimal for use with Flash memory. This industry standard code over Galois Field (2¹¹) has eight 11-bit characters (88 bits, or 11 bytes) of redundancy. Empirical measurement will show that the competition's RS ECC when hit with three random byte errors, will miscorrect more than 20% of the time!

BiTMICRO^® Networks' RS ECC, with a proper decoding algorithm, will NEVER miscorrect three random byte errors. For very large number of errors, the competition's RS ECC will miscorrect roughly 25% of the time. In contrast, BiTMICRO^® Networks' RS ECC will only miscorrect less than 0.1% of the time for errors greater than 9 bytes out of 528 bytes.