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Using QLC for cold storage is a fool’s errand

Editor’s Note: This blog by storage industry veteran Hubbert Smith begins with a brief history of SLC-MLC-TLC-QLC and then gives a forecast of what to expect from QLC. It pertains mostly to...

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Ignore drive write messaging… SSDs are more reliable than HDDs, Period.

This blog mostly pertains to SSDs in server and storage arrays. All NAND relies on electrical charges in silicon. Writing data involves a Program Erase (P/E) cycle, also known as a write cycle. And...

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Concerning the mistaken belief that key value databases chew up SSDs

Blog: There is a misguided notion that key value databases are unfriendly to SSDs. That’s because unattended compaction layers on SSDs can shorten the SSD’s life. You might think that key value code...

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NVMe v1.4 resolves data centre SSD noisy neighbour problems

At the risk of ruining the ending … Data centre SSDs have their own domain of stubborn problems and they are not remotely like client SSDs. Remedies do not have to include re-inventing the SSD, as...

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