The Enterprise Solid State Storage Performance Test Specification v1.0 draft has been posted at http://www.snia.org/publicreview/ and is available for download. [Update: released specification is now available here.]
The Enterprise SSS PTS provides a standard way of measuring the performance of SSDs for Enterprise applications, thus enabling fair comparisons of SSDs from different suppliers.
It is anticipated that final release of the Enterprise SSS PTS will occur in April 2011.
Work is ongoing in the SSS Technical Work Group on development of a Client SSS PTS.
More information about the SSS PTS can be found at http://www.snia.org/forums/sssi/knowledge/education/.
Hi! Thank you for your imformative blog. Just a quick question, does this test spec also take into account “industrial grade storage for embedded/IPC systems”? Thanks!!
The SSS Performance Test Specification applies to solid state storage in general, and contains no distinction for industrial grade SSS. Industrial use of SSS usually requires robust temperature and other environmental specifications, but the performance metrics are the same.