Hadi Sayed | Staff Product Manager Enterprise Division, SSD
KIOXIA America, Inc.

Future of Memory and Storage - Day 2 @ 08:45

Unlocking QLC Performance and Scalability

As SSD capacities scale toward 245TB and beyond, traditional architectures that separate SCM and high-capacity flash across different devices face increasing challenges in bandwidth scaling, latency predictability, endurance efficiency, and system cost. This topic explores mixed-media SSD architectures that integrate a small, high-endurance SLC namespace alongside a large, high-density QLC namespace within a single drive, enabling storage systems to better align flash characteristics with real-world access patterns.  It examines how modern data platforms can use the SLC tier for latency-sensitive metadata, write buffering, and small-block operations, while directing large, aligned writes to the QLC tier.  With this approach, mixed-media designs reduce write amplification, improve sustained write efficiency at high drive utilization, and make high-capacity QLC viable for performance-sensitive environments.

Hadi Sayed, Staff Product Manager Enterprise Division, SSD, KIOXIA America, Inc.

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Hadi Sayed / Unlocking QLC Performance and Scalability

Hadi Sayed, Staff Product Manager Enterprise Division, SSD,
KIOXIA America, Inc.

Hadi Sayed is a Product Manager at KIOXIA America, Inc.  Hadi has built his career in the NAND flash storage industry, with previous roles at Swissbit, CNEX Labs, and DapuStor.    Hadi holds a B.S. In Computer Engineering and a M.S. In Electrical and Computer Engineering.

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