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we're used to getting revisions of computer standards fairly regularly

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think about how many versions of usb ddr and pci express we've been through but

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we haven't had to put much thought into NVMe so far as there's only been one

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major version of it until now as the NVMe 2.0 standard has just been released

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in case you're out of loop NVMe or non-volatile memory express is the

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protocol that pci express connected storage drives use because it's much

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faster than the older SATA standard it's enabled those gaudy four figure

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throughput numbers you see on manufacturer spec sheets for m.2 drives

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and the NVMe 2.0 specification is bringing some new features to the table

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so let's dive right in one of the major improvements is for something called

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zoned namespaces and that might sound like some kind of forward thinking

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therapy collective but it's actually a system designed to address some of the

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biggest issues with ssds you see even though ssds are a lot faster than

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old-school spinning hard drives there's a significant amount of inefficiency

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under the hood because the cells in an SSD can only be written to so many times

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before they wear out for good the SSD's internal logic has to move data around

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in a process called wear leveling to make sure certain cells don't exhaust

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their lifespans more quickly than others additionally ssds can't directly

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overwrite cells instead cells have to have their data erased first

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and this has to be done in groups of cells so any data in that group that the

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system needs to preserve must be copied to an empty area ssds reserve a certain

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amount of space called over provisioning to support these data operations meaning

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a significant amount of storage is inaccessible to the user NVMe 2.0 zoned

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namespaces help alleviate this situation by allowing programs to reserve specific

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physical areas on the SSD and write data

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for that program sequentially without zone name spaces the SSD itself would be

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in charge of what data goes where and this often results in a specific

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program's data being scattered all over the drive meaning that any changes to

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that data could require lots of those read copy delete actions that use a

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large amount of over provisioned space but with zoned namespaces a smaller

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physical footprint per program means the SSD won't have to over provision as much

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space nor do so many reads and writes

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meaning effectively larger drives with better endurance for the same cost and

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programs could also see a performance boost from zone name spaces as ssds read

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and write sequential data faster than they do random data so not only is this

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good for consumers like you and me but larger organizations should see an even

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greater benefit than us since when you're running lots of ssds in parallel

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such as inside a gigantic server farm having that much wasted space and

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latency can have a significant negative impact not to mention the direct cost of

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having to replace drives that wear out the second significant benefit of NVMe

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2.0 that we're going to discuss today is it's surprising support for mechanical

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hard drives but why would it support mechanical hard

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drives i mean even higher end drives can't come anywhere close to using the

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full bandwidth of plain old SATA so

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what gives it turns out that recent advances in hard drive manufacturing

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have allowed drives to read data off the platters more quickly partly due to

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improvements in the actuators that move the drive parts around and partly due to

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fitting more data on the platters themselves through techniques like heat

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assisted magnetic recording which you can learn about up here

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hammer time this means that some hard drives that are just starting to hit the

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market can get sustained transfer rates above 500 megabytes per second

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sequentially which is comparable to SATA based ssds

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NVMe 2.0 will provide enough bandwidth to ensure newer hard drives can max out

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their potential especially important in larger settings that use lots of hard

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drives for mass storage they can share data among themselves quickly of course

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because the NVMe 2.0 spec was released recently it'll be a while before we see

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products that support it but hopefully the result will be larger cheaper drives

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for your home pc and quicker more reliable access to cloud services i just

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wouldn't expect disney to slash the price of your streaming subscription

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with the money they're saving on drives world doesn't tend to work like that

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