Paper Title: Using Software to Improve the Performance and Endurance of High-Capacity SSDs

Paper Abstract: NAND flash technologies with more levels per cell (such as QLC) produce larger SSDs at much lower per-bit cost. However, such SSDs also have much lower performance and endurance. New software, based on AI methods, can overcome the drawback. It uses part of the drive as a static SLC cache, thus greatly reducing the number of accesses to the multilevel part. It also places data intelligently on the drive according to customer usage patterns, thus reducing the number of writes and extending lifetimes. The overall result is higher performance and longer lifetime for large SSDs at no additional hardware cost and only a small reduction in capacity.

Paper Author: Andy Mills, CEO, Enmotus

Author Bio: Andy Mills has over 20 years of experience in the PC, server, networking and storage industries. Prior to Enmotus, Andy was VP Marketing for Dot Hill Systems where he led the server Virtual RAID Adapter and storage virtualization appliance strategies for the company, where he worked with Dell and HP on storage OEM solutions for servers and appliances, and where he also re-started Dot Hill's efforts in the VAR channel. Andy is a Prentice Hall author, and is inventor on several patents in the fields of storage and networking. He holds Bachelors Honors and Masters degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Bangor, UK.