Eran Yuval serves as a lead for gaming and AI within Sandisk's Client SSD technical marketing team. Driven by his enthusiasm for improving how people interact with technology, he collaborates with the broader ecosystem, product managers, architects, and clients to innovate next-generation products. Eran holds an MBA in finance and marketing, and has R&D experience ranging from transistor-level chip design to work with system-C and RTL.
Gaming SSDs are a popular high-end segment and typically include very high synthetic benchmark performance as well as additional features. However, gaming workloads are not always optimized for storage. To provide the best user experience for games, we characterized the way games use storage and developed a new methodology for benchmarking storage for games, and games performance.Our research shows how typical QLC SSDs can be used for games, and what features matter to user experience in a gaming workload. We also present an A/B study with gamers on popular PC games, demonstrating that modern QLC SSDs can provide a comparable gaming experience for frame rate, heavy graphics and level transitions.