Jim Handy, Director, Objective Analysis and Thomas Coughlin, PhD, President, Coughlin Associates
About this talk
This presentation, based upon a groundbreaking new report, compares the throughput of 17 readily-available SLC and MLC SSDs and one enterprise HDD. Using data from an exhaustive suite of SNIA performance tests performed by Calypso Systems SSD throughput is shown to vary widely, with several drives running over the long term at only a small fraction of their initial performance.
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a non-profit organization made up of member companies spanning information technology. A globally recognized and trusted authority, SNIA’s mission is to lead the storage industry in developing and promoting vendor-neutral architectures, standards and educational services that facilitate the efficient management, movement and security of information.…