SSDEn informatique, un SSD (de l'anglais solid-state drive), voire disque SSD, disque électronique, disque statique à semi-conducteurs ou plus simplement disque à semi-conducteurs au Québec, est un matériel informatique permettant le stockage de données sur de la mémoire flash. En Français, l'utilisation commune du terme « disque SSD » en France et « disque à semi-conducteurs » au Québec, constituent toutes les deux un abus de langage, puisque le mot « disque » n'existe pas dans l'Anglais « solid-state drive ».
Hard disk drive performance characteristicsHigher performance in hard disk drives comes from devices which have better performance characteristics. These performance characteristics can be grouped into two categories: access time and data transfer time (or rate). The access time or response time of a rotating drive is a measure of the time it takes before the drive can actually transfer data. The factors that control this time on a rotating drive are mostly related to the mechanical nature of the rotating disks and moving heads.
Bcachebcache (abbreviated from block cache) is a cache in the Linux kernel's block layer, which is used for accessing secondary storage devices. It allows one or more fast storage devices, such as flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs), to act as a cache for one or more slower storage devices, such as hard disk drives (HDDs); this effectively creates hybrid volumes and provides performance improvements. Designed around the nature and performance characteristics of SSDs, bcache also minimizes write amplification by avoiding random writes and turning them into sequential writes instead.
Dm-cachedm-cache is a component (more specifically, a target) of the Linux kernel's device mapper, which is a framework for mapping block devices onto higher-level virtual block devices. It allows one or more fast storage devices, such as flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs), to act as a cache for one or more slower storage devices such as hard disk drives (HDDs); this effectively creates hybrid volumes and provides secondary storage performance improvements.
