Exploiting the uFLIP benchmark for analyzing SSDs performance

Author

Yoonsuk Kang ; Yong-Yeon Jo ; Jaehyuk Cha ; Sang-Wook Kim ; Young Kyun Shin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Software, Hanyang Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2014

fDate

19-21 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

458

Lastpage

461

Abstract

Solid state drives (SSDs) have higher bandwidth and lower access latency than hard disk drives (HDDs). Therefore, SSDs have been rapidly replacing HDDs. Many SSD manufactures produce their own SSDs. However, they do not open their SSD architecture and control firmware. As a result it is necessary to compare and analyze the performance of different kind of SSDs. A benchmark is used to analyze the storage device´s performance. However, most benchmarks are targeted at HDDs. In this paper, we exploit the uFLIP benchmark which reflects flash device characteristics to analyze the SSD performance. Through this process, we have identified common SSD characteristics. Also, we have confirmed that a particular SSD shows strength at some situations.

Keywords

flash memories; HDD; SSD architecture; control firmware; flash device characteristics; hard disk drives; solid state drives; storage device performance; uFLIP benchmark; Bandwidth; Benchmark testing; Computer architecture; Flash memories; Market research; Parallel processing; Performance evaluation; SSD; benchmark; flash device; parallelism; uFLIP;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network Infrastructure and Digital Content (IC-NIDC), 2014 4th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4736-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNIDC.2014.7000345

Filename

7000345