The situation has not been changed yet even with the advent of SSDs.
But recently, IBM has made a breakthrough added flash drives to power systems.
In this area, the CPUs (Central Processing Units) deserve much of the credit.
But even the fastest CPU in the world is nothing if there is no peripheral to support it.
This is correct for any machines, including a power system machine.
According to IBM, the mainstream products are referring to read heavy environments.
Therefore, reducing the write rates is the key factor for longevity.
Whatever happens, the new drives will be attached to SAS controllers, instead of NVM-Express ports.
And there is a duty cycle of one drive write per day during the past 5 years.
Till now, the disk drives have worked well.
This is actually realized by moving from disk to flash memory, an inevitable upgrade of CPU or memory.
Besides, good intelligent layered software is need.
Whats more, the SSD Mainstream Fuel Gauge tool is a good choice if you want to push it.
All in all, the action of adding flash drives in power systems is marvelous!
