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| Z's Laws - Predicting
Future Flash SSD Performance |
A reader asked a
very good question.
"Is there an industry roadmap for future
flash SSD
performance?"
That prompted other questions like...
- How fast are flash SSDs going to be in 2009?, 2010? or 2012?
- What are the technology factors which relate to flash SSD throughput and
IOPS?
- How close will flash SSDs get to
RAM SSD performance?
There wasn't a simple answer I could give at the time. Clues lay
scattered all across this web site
and in my many one on one discussions with readers about the market... But I
agreed there should be a single place on the web where these answers could be
found.
Forget
Moore's
Law. That gives you the wrong answer, and this article explains why. ...read the article | |