If you’re trying to measure real-world performance for your applications, average latencies are only a starting point. Occasional spikes in read-response times can make the difference between acceptable performance and an unhappy customer.

With their high capacity at lower cost and significant advantages over hard disk drives (HDDs), Intel® 3D NAND SSDs will continue to play a crucial role in the data center as affordable capacity storage of less-frequently-accessed data. But for time-critical operations demanding excellent QoS, Intel® Optane™ DC SSDs deliver a far superior solution.

Intel® Optane™ technology offers a revolutionary approach to delivering consistently high QoS in the data center by providing tightly controlled, consistently low latencies even for intense Intel® SSD workloads.

This paper is part of a series designed to help system architects, engineers, and IT administrators understand the technological limitations of traditional memory and storage, how those limitations have led to performance and capacity gaps in the data center, and how Intel® Optane™ technology helps fill those gaps with a new industry disrupting architecture.