Improving the SSD Performance by Exploiting Request Characteristics and Internal Parallelism.

With the explosive growth in the data volume, the I/O bottleneck has become an increasingly daunting challenge for big data analytics. It is urgent and important to introduce high-performance flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) into the storage systems. However, since the existing systems are primarily designed for conventional magnetic hard disk drives, directly incorporating SSDs in the existi...