The SSD write cliff in real life by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 7, 2012 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM | 9 comments Flash drives are known to have latency issues. The requirement to erase and program large blocks – even for small writes – means that if the drive runs out of free blocks a 50+ ms delay is possible while garbage collection works to provide one. Since free blocks are used up in wri

