Extending SSD lifetimes with disk-based write caches

  • Authors:
  • Gokul Soundararajan;Vijayan Prabhakaran;Mahesh Balakrishnan;Ted Wobber

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Toronto;Microsoft Research Silicon Valley;Microsoft Research Silicon Valley;Microsoft Research Silicon Valley

  • Venue:
  • FAST'10 Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on File and storage technologies
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present Griffin, a hybrid storage device that uses a hard disk drive (HDD) as a write cache for a Solid State Device (SSD). Griffin is motivated by two observations: First, HDDs can match the sequential write bandwidth of mid-range SSDs. Second, both server and desktop workloads contain a significant fraction of block overwrites. By maintaining a log-structured HDD cache and migrating cached data periodically, Griffin reduces writes to the SSD while retaining its excellent performance. We evaluate Griffin using a variety of I/O traces from Windows systems and show that it extends SSD lifetime by a factor of two and reduces average I/O latency by 56%.