Abstract: A solid state disk comprising includes a plurality of protected flash memory modules each having a plurality of flash memory devices, a flash memory controller, power protection circuitry and interconnect interface. Each of the protected flash memory modules is removably inserted into a socketed interconnect and coupled thereby to a circuit board having a multicore flash processor, host interface and program code store. The multicore flash processor executes program code stored in the program store to enable an external agent interacting with the solid state disk via the host interface to perceive the solid state disk as having a single flash controller instead of the multiple flash controllers disposed respectively on the protected flash memory modules.