SOLID STATE STORAGE EDUCATION

Listed below are whitepapers, webcasts, presentations and other relevant materials to quickly bring you up-to-speed on the Solid State Storage Marketplace.  For more information from across the industry, visit our Articles page.

Resources

• PCIe SSD Task Force - NEW!
• Understanding SSD Performance Project
• Solid State Storage Standards Explained
• Solid State Storage Form Factors
• SSSI Blogroll
• SSSI Glossary

White Papers

• Foreword to Understanding SSD Performance Using the SNIA SSS PTS
• Understanding SSD Performance Using the SNIA SSS Performance Test Specification
• Two May be Better than One; Why Hard Disk Drives and Flash Belong Together
• SSS PTS Case Study
• Solid State Storage Performance Test Specification (SSS PTS) White Paper
• Storage Performance Benchmarking Guidelines – Part 1: Workload Design
• NAND Flash Solid State Storage for the Enterprise – An In-depth Look at Reliability
• Solid State Storage 101
• Total Cost of Solid State Storage Ownership - An In-Depth Analysis of Many Important TCO Factors
  (note: Download the SNIA SSSI TCO Calculator here)
   

Video 

• Eden Kim Describing the SSS PTS at Storage Visions 2012 - NEW! 

Presentations from SSSI Meeting on January 23, 2012

• SSSI Overview (including the meeting agenda)
• TWG Overview
• PCIe Roundtable
• SSSI Promotional Activities
• Solid Security - The Rise of Self-Encrypted Drives
• SSDs with Self-Encryption
• Caching with Flash     

Webcasts

• How Your Data Gets to Your SSD — Exploring the Hardware/Software Stack
• Understanding SSD Performance Using the SNIA SSS Performance Test Specification
• Solid State Storage Adoption and Use - a Glimpse into the IT Professional Mind
• Solid Security - the Rise of Self-Encrypted Drives
• The Benefits of Solid State in Enterprise Storage Systems
• Why HDD and Flash Belong Together
• SSD Performance Testing - Some Real Results     

Presentations

• How IOs Traverse the Hardware/Software Stack
• Understanding SSD Performance Using the SNIA SSS Performance Test Specification
• Benefits of Solid State in Enterprise Storage
• SSSI Solid State Storage Performance Test Specification
• Are SSDs Ready for Enterprise Storage Systems?
• Validating SSS Performance
• Using Client SSDs in the Data Center
• Accelerating Applications and File Systems with Solid State
• Solid Business, Shifting Vision:  What Users Can Realistically Expect from SSS in the Next 2 Years
• Facing an SSS Decision? Here is How SNIA is Helping Users Evaluate SSS Performance

Other

• JEDEC SSD Standards: SSD Requirements and Endurance Test Method & SSD Endurance Workloads