1. How Solid-state Technologies are Transforming MySQL Server Performance and the Datacenter Architectures -1- Flash is Revolutionary Changes storage from spinning to solid state Changes performance Changes application development

2. Performance is Impressive How Solid-state Technologies are Transforming MySQL Server Performance and the Datacenter Architectures -2-

3. Challenges Complexity of engineering How Solid-state Technologies are Transforming MySQL Server Performance and the Datacenter Architectures -3- What RAID level to use ? What RAID card to use ? How to put it all together ?

4. Challenges Reliability Capacity Price How Solid-state Technologies are Transforming MySQL Server Performance and the Datacenter Architectures -4-

5. Advantages IO performance is really impressive Consolidation factor 2x-10x Reduced power consumption How Solid-state Technologies are Transforming MySQL Server Performance and the Datacenter Architectures -5-

6. Read / Write Asymmetry Fast reads Fast writes –But much slower then reads How Solid-state Technologies are Transforming MySQL Server Performance and the Datacenter Architectures -6-

7. Firmware Matters How Solid-state Technologies are Transforming MySQL Server Performance and the Datacenter Architectures -7-

8. Application Changes Eliminates 100 IOPS limitation Algorithms, access patch, etc. Cache hierarchy How Solid-state Technologies are Transforming MySQL Server Performance and the Datacenter Architectures -8- RAM Flash HDD