SSD Throughput, Latency and IOPS Explained – Learning To Run With Flash | The SSD Review

As fast as SSDs have found mainstream consumer use, they are unfortunately grouped in the same picture as a hard drive, if only for the fact that they are seen as storage and little more. Both the size and demography of our readership paints this picture clearly, however, there exists an amazing opportunity to take our readers a step further; an opportunity to show why we might have such passion for what many might consider a very dry area. In this segment of ‘Learning To Run With Flash’ let’s gain an understanding of the ‘Big 3′ of SSD performance, these being throughput, latency and IOPS.

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