Do Temperature and Humidity Exposures Hurt or Benefit Your SSDs?

Abstract

SSDs are becoming mainstream data storage devices, replacing HDDs in most data centers, consumer goods, and IoT gadgets. In this work, we ask an uncharted research question: What is the environmental conditions' impact on SSD performance? To answer it, we systematically measure, quantify, and characterize the impact of various commonly changing environmental conditions such as temperature and humidity on the performance of SSDs. Our experiments and analysis uncover that exposure to changes in temperature and humidity can significantly affect SSD performance.

Publication
In Proceedings of the 2022 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE)
Baolin Li
Baolin Li
Ph.D.

My research interests include high performance computing, cloud computing, and machine learing.