Using data from millions of drive days in Google datacenters, a new paper offers production lifecycle data on SSD reliability. Surprise! SSDs fail differently than disks - and in a dangerous way. Here's what you need to know. SSDs are a new phenomenon in the datacenter. We have theories about how they should perform, but until now, little data. That's just changed. The FAST 2016 paper Flash Reliab
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