1. Taking SSDs to the Next Level

2. 2 2013 – A Hot Year for Storage $9.5B+ in Acquisitions and Investments In the PC Market… Mainstream 3-bit MLC SSDs PCIe SSD in the PC 1TB mSATA SSDs M.2 form factor Caching software In the Data Center Market… Mainstream 1TB 2.5” SSDs NVMe-based SSD Latency / QoS optimization 3D/VNAND-based SSD Source: IDC 2013

3. 3 PC-Based Caching Software RAPID nearly doubles* system level performance on same SSD 56K 103K 8K 7x 1.8x *PCMark Vantage benchmark +

4. 4 QoS / Latency Optimization Consistency of performance varies greatly between SSDs

5. 5 V-NAND 20nm e-e- e-e- 10nm e-e- e-e- e-e- e-e- Cell Over 30nm e-e- e-e- e-e- e-e- Cell-to-CellInterference Patterning V-NAND

6. 6 2D Planar ‘05‘13‘07‘09‘11 Year Design Rule (nm) ‘03 3D V-NAND / No Patterning Limitation 128Gb 16Gb 8 stack 128Gb 24 stack 1Tb ‘17‘15 V-NAND brings higher densities without the typical tradeoffs

7. 7 2014 Industry Trends Boot drives  SSDs Servers with SFF-8639 Mainstream 2TB 2.5” SSDs SATAe/NVMe in the PC & Server Educated End-Users

8. 8 2014 Industry Trend: Mainstream 2TB 2.5” SSDs <1K IOPS 15TB Usable 320K IOPS* 16TB Usable 3+1 RAID 5 (5TB) RAID Card 4 x 3.5” HDDs 8 RAID 0 (2TB) HBA 8 x 2.5” SSDs * 6Gb x8 HBA bottleneck HDD 2014 brings similar 1U server capacity and unmatched performance IOPS/GB 0.05 vs 20 SSD

9. 9 2014 Industry Trend: SATAe/NVMe in the PC & Server Protocol Stand ardization PC-adoption is key to bringing mainstream SATA will start to shift to PCIe in PC/Server Form factors: HHHL, 2.5” SF F-8639, M.2

10. 10 2014 Industry Trend: Educated End-Users End-users’ questions are more advanced Customers are shaping next generation Tailoring workloads specifically for SSDs 1.Random  Sequential 2.Looking closely at SMART attributes 3.Aligning writes to page boundaries RandomSequential MLC 480GB SSD1,730 TBW10,000 TBW 5.8x

11. 11 Samsung SSDs: Unmatched Quality Higher quality Faster technology advancements One-stop troubleshooting End-to-End Integration

12. 12 …and get a 1,440% return over 3 years* How can you Maximize Your Storage Investment * This is a hypothetical example and is no guarantee of return on investment

13. 13 First the Math Behind It * This is a hypothetical example and no guarantee of return on investment $100k/year $0.014/second Saving one sec ond every two minutes mean s… $0.42/hour $ 50/month $ 1800/3 years $125 investment can result in $1,800 savings

14. 14 The Secret? 250GB SSD$171 250GB HDD$46 Cost Difference$125 250GB SSD$171 250GB HDD Cost Difference $1,846 $1,675 * Costs captured from Amazon.com in Jan 2014 and effective costs based on hypothetical example just covered 3 yr Effective Costs* Acquisition Costs* + $1,800

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