Data, Storage and how to get from there to here

Data Explosion

Data Need - ILM

Data - The Need for Speed

The good ole' Hard Disk Drives

HDD Structure

The Rotating Nature Of HDDs

HDD - Sequential access patterns

HDD - Random access patterns

Disk Interfaces

The IDE Interface

The SCSI Interface

The SATA Interface

The SAS Interface

HDD - fighting for speed

HDD - Getting More Bandwidth

HDD - Getting More IOPS

FLASH - Non-Volatile Memory

The Internal Mechanism Of NAND-FLASH

The Internal Mechanism Of an SSD

Endurance

Write Amplification

SSD And The HDD Interface Limitations

PCIe Interface For SSD

SSD and Price fights

SSD and Price fights - Splitting Based On Applications

SSD and Price fights - Data Tiering

SSD and Price fights - Data Caching

Caching inside the storage system

Caching inside the host

References

  1. IDE and ATA-1 - wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA#IDE_and_ATA-1
  2. SAS - Serial-Attached SCSI - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_attached_SCSI
  3. Solid-State drive - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive
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