Enterprise SSDs

  • Authors:
  • Mark Moshayedi;Patrick Wilkison

  • Affiliations:
  • STEC;STEC

  • Venue:
  • Queue - Enterprise Flash Storage
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Solid-state drives are finally ready for the enterprise. But beware, not all SSDs are created alike. For designers of enterprise systems, ensuring that hardware performance keeps pace with application demands is a mind-boggling exercise. The most troubling performance challenge is storage I/O. Spinning media, while exceptional in scaling areal density, will unfortunately never keep pace with I/O requirements. The most cost-effective way to break through these storage I/O limitations is by incorporating high-performance SSDs (solid-state drives) into the systems.