SSDs have gone from expensive storage devices used sparingly to a main-stream storage solution. In this transition, SSDs have left behind the legacy HDD defined form factors and are finding more optimal design opportunities including E1.S/L and E3.S/L. With E1.L SSDs, we can enable designs that can fit 1PB of flash in a front-serviceable system in the near future! On the other hand, E1.S SSDs can enable very high performance devices at a smaller capacity point that can be used across the storage and compute fleet. Together with the OCP community, we are working to ensure that an E1.S form factor is able to meet the needs of hyperscale consumers like us as well as the rest of the industry. We believe that these EDSFF formfactors are the future of flash, and will optimize and unlock new opportunities in our system designs.
Jason is passionate about hyperscale and scale-out storage systems and storage architectures. His experience ranges from high-performance flash systems to archival systems, and everything in between.