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SSD-iq: Uncovering the Hidden Side of SSD Performance
Summary: Commercial data-center SSDs with similar headline specs show large, undocumented performance divergence that materially affects DB performance, particularly for writes. SSD-iq: a benchmark adding four metrics to expose controller and write-path behaviors missed by capacity/sequential/random specs.
(summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 14046
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 2025
- Pagerank
- 4.1945683e-05
- Overall Rank
- 10,734 | 25.33%
- DOI
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10.14778/3749646.3749694
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