Paper Title: The New Storage Tier between High-Performance SSDs and HDDs

Paper Abstract: The introduction of QLC NAND was less about replacing TLC SSDs and more about displacing high-performance HDDs in the storage market. The first SLC SSDs created a new storage tier between HDDs and DRAM and now QLC bifurcates that again with a warm data tier between high-performance TLC SSDs and capacity-focused HDDs. The true cost delta between QLC SSDs and high-performance HDDs has reached a new plateau that will more quickly displace these one-time storage icons. This presentation will dive deeply into that new tier, which is critical for today's exponentially growing performance sensitive workloads.

Paper Author: Kent Smith, Product Marketing, Micron Technology

Author Bio: Kent Smith manages all the Enterprise and Client SSD channel marketing for Micron Technology, Inc., an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions. He previously directed all the outbound marketing of SSDs at Seagate, LSI and SandForce, where he pioneered the SandForce Driven program. He has 11 years of NAND Flash and SSD storage leadership and more than 25 years of data storage experience. He is a long-time presenter at Flash Memory Summit and has published more than 30 technology articles, papers and corporate blogs on flash memory technology. He holds an MBA and BSBA from the University of Phoenix.