Paper Title: How Open-Channel SSDs Benefit Data Center and Enterprise Applications

Paper Abstract: During the recent period in which NAND flash has been increasingly used in data center and enterprise applications, media access time has been greatly reduced. The software stacks have thus become a significant overhead in the overall latency. At the same time, a consistent IOPS with QoS latency remains essential in enterprise applications. Therefore, in addition to the NVMe standard, an open-channel SSD framework provides a differentiated approach to ensure low/predictable latency and isolate IO streams with QoS. Innovations have been developed for data management at host and device, and favorable results have been achieved in terms of IOPS, latency, and QoS.

Paper Author: Rick Huang, Product Marketing Manager, Silicon Motion

Author Bio: Rick Huang is the SSD product marketing manager at Silicon Motion. He handles product marketing for client SATA/PCIe/NVMe SSDs and has managed the development of client SSDs with both 2D and 3D NAND. He has more than 10 year experience in mobile communication system design and SSD product marketing. Rick has presented at several conferences and meetings, including past Flash Memory Summits. He holds an MSEE from National Tsinghua University (Taiwan).