Keith McKay | Solutions Architect
ScaleFlux
Keith McKay is the Sr. Director of Solutions Architecture and Technical Partnerships at ScaleFlux, where he helps integrate and optimize SSD solutions across a wide variety of applications. He has delivered NAND flash training in four different countries and regularly speaks at industry events. His nearly 20-year career in memory and storage began in AMD’s memory group. He designed NAND Flash as an engineer at Spansion and SanDisk and led SSD applications engineering teams at SandForce, LSI, and Seagate. He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University.
Appearances:
Future of Memory and Storage - Day 2 @ 10:35
Managing Write Amp with without Data Placement
Write amplification is the fundamental enemy of SSD performance and reliability. The SSD industry has offered several solutions for managing write amplification through data placement initiatives such as Zoned Namespaces and Flexible Direct Placement. These technologies work well for tightly integrated infrastructure. Nonetheless, many application developers cannot rely on the availability of these advanced capabilities. This talk will review the fundamental origins of write amplification and discuss software techniques for managing write amplification that account for SSD internals, but do not rely on anything beyond mandatory IO command sets to achieve lower write amplification.
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