Extending NAND flash life expectancy as well as number of program-erase cycles, storage reference design includes Arria® 10 SoC with integrated dual-core ARM® Cortex®A9 processor in single-chip solution leveraging Universal NVM Express Controller (UNEX) configurable controller for PCIe-based solid-state disks (SSDs) and NVMdurance NAND optimization software. Reference design also features end-to-end data protection, encryption and compression, and optimizes throughput and power consumption.