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Leveraging Value Locality in Optimizing NAND Flash-based SSDs Aayush Gupta, Raghav Pisolkar, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, and Anand Sivasubramaniam {axg354,rvp116,bhuvan,anand}@ Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802, PA Abstract: NAND flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) drives or in supplementary roles (e.g., caches) [23]. are increasingly being deployed in storage systems at dif- Whereas a number of other non-volatile memory tech- ferent levels such as buffer-caches and even secondary nologies - phase-change, ferroelectric, and magnetic storage. However, the poor reliability and performance RAM - exist at different levels of maturity and offer offered by these SSDs for write-intensive workloads con- similar benefits, cost/feasibility projections suggest that tinues to be their key shortcoming. Several solutions NAND flash (simply flash, henceforth) is likely to be at based on traditionally popular notions of temporal and the forefront of these significant changes in storage for spatial locality help reduce write traffic for SSDs. How- the next decade [17]. Another trend from EMC sug- ever, another form of locality - value locality - has re- gests that SSD prices will continue to fall to the extent mained completely unexplored. Value locality implies of becoming cheaper than 15K RPM HDDs by 2017 [7]. that certain data items (i.e., “values,” not just logical ad- Thus, exploring ways to further improve flash technol- dresses) are likely to be accessed preferentially. Given ogy and its use in designing better storage systems will evidence for the presence of significant value locality continue to be worthwhile pursuits in the coming years. in real-world workloads