The Miraculous World of Solid-State Drives

Trying to predict how future breakthroughs will help shape tomorrow’s computing landscape is a daunting task. Undeterred, Bruce Yellin ventures into the realm of solid-state storage, comprehensively explaining its intricacies, examining where we’ve been, where we are, and where we may be headed.

In this Knowledge Sharing article, readers will learn about the popular interfaces and form factors available, gain an understanding of IOPs and latencies, how to evaluate SSD TCO, and examine the art of SSD benchmarking.

Bruce also discusses future innovations such as storing data by heating molecules in Phase-Change Memory and the radical idea of saving multiple values using resistance in a device called the Memristor.

Read the full article here.