… the “unwritten contract” that clients of SSDs should follow to obtain high performance, and
conduct our analysis to uncover application and file system designs that violate the contract. …

… SSDs are different from disk drives in many aspects such as … disk-specific assumptions hold
for SSDs, we list six system-level assumptions (three of which are from the unwritten contract …

… unwritten contract and explain the insights for each rule in Section 2. We provide the implications
of the unwritten contract … The Unwritten Contract of Solid State Drives. In Proceedings of …

The motivation to write this book started perhaps some ten years ago. At that time, Philippe
had his Research Statement posted online, and, thanks to one of those coincidences that life …

… At the bottom of the storage stack are storage devices such as Hard Disk Drives (HDDs)
and Solid State Drives (SSDs). HDDs have dominated the market for decades, and they will …

… “unwritten contract” of traditional SSDs, ie, SSDs equipped with an embedded Flash Translation
Layer, that provide the block device abstraction (initially defined for magnetic hard drives…

… The emergence of flash solid state drives (SSDs) has … SSDs are governed by many “unwritten
contracts” [15] regarding … ing the following previously “unwritten contracts” and how they …

… Address translations in VBD makes the layout of the address space in a guest domain not
to coincide with the actual layout in a storage device, and nullifies the “unwritten contract” [29] …

… from Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) having mechanical moving parts and instead embracing
NAND-based flash memory. This is evident from the rising popularity of Solid State Drives (SSDs)…

In modern solid-state drives (SSDs), the indexing of flash pages is a critical component in
their storage controllers. It not only affects the data access performance, but also determines …