The Limitations of Today's SSDs | The Backend Engineering Show
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Backend database applications relay on good storage systems for performance, durability and low latency. SSDs have been a great invention that changed the storage game compared to mechanical drives. However, SSDs came with their own sets of problems which can cause database reads and writes to plummet after a while. This episode discusses the current limitations of SSDs include garbage collection, wear leveling, over provisioning and how zoned name spaces “may” fix this.
0:00 Intro
1:40 Block
4:00 Logical Block Addressing
6:00 Flash Translation Layer
6:50 DRAM
8:50 Erase unit
11:11 Namespace
12:00 Summary
13:40 Garbage collection
16:49 Over provisioning
18:00 Write amplification
21:28 Wear leveling
Resources
https://www.snia.org/educational-library/zoned-namespaces-zns-ssds-disrupting-storage-industry-2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbX3P56Jp0o&feature=emb_title
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