Understanding SSD Technology

Eliminating IO or making it as fast as possible is a tenet of operational databases. As a DBA it is important to understand how SSD technology can drastically improve your database performance and what tradeoffs can be made, for example more or faster SSD and reduced RAM for bufferpools, and recovery considerations. Slower SATA technology may still be appropriate for historical data or archives that are seldom accessed. Learn more from this article: https://www.kingston.com/en/ssd/what-is-nvme-ssd-technology#:~:text=PCIe%204.0%20doubled%20that%20to,communicate%20data%20with%20storage%20devices.