Industry Standards Arrive for Testing Solid State Drives
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The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association said that its standards subcommittee has published two standards for SSDs: JESD218 Solid-State Drive (SSD) Requirements and Endurance Test Method and JESD219 Solid-State Drive Endurance Workloads. This means that for the very first time we have set standards for real-life, endurance and reliability metrics to better enable customers to select the right SSD for their expected applications and workloads. We here at Legit Reviews have been pushing for some sort of standardization for SSD testing, so this is something we have been waiting a long time for!
- The JESD218 standard creates an SSD Endurance Rating, which represents the number of terabytes of data written by a host to the SSD, which is referred to as TBW. TBW provides a standard comparison for SSDs based on application class.
- The JESD219 standard addresses SSD Endurance Workloads by establishing a standard workload for comparable results. For now, JESD219 defines workloads for enterprise applications only; client workloads will be added later.
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