International Business Machines Corporation

Zhen Nyu Yao

Yao Zhang

Ning Ding

Jing Lan Chen

Bo Tong Liu

Wei Feng Yang

Yongjie Gong

Xu Chu Jiang

Zhi Zhi Huang

The example embodiments disclose a system and method, a computer program product, and a computer system for improving solid-state drive performance. The example embodiments may include generating, by an affinity adapter located external to the solid-state drive, a plurality of affinities for each of a plurality of data to a respective plurality of subdivisions of data of a solid-state drive, wherein each of the plurality of data is associated with a logical block address (LBA) and each of the respective plurality of subdivisions has a physical block address (PBA). The example embodiments may also include receiving a request to write first data having a first LBA to the solid-state drive, determining by the solid-state drive, at a first time, that the first data has an affinity with a particular subdivision of data of a solid-state drive based on the generated plurality of affinities, and writing the first data to a memory location of the solid-state drive, wherein the PBA of the memory location has the determined affinity.

Solid-state drive performance and lifespan based on data affinity

Methods that can offload data operations to a storage system are provided. One method includes performing, by a processor, a set of non-storage operations at a storage system for data stored in a set of storage devices on the storage system to generate a set of results, in which the storage system is separate from a client device that owns the data, and transmitting the result(s) to the client device that owns the data. Apparatus, systems, and computer program products that can include, perform, and/or implement the methods are also disclosed herein.

Apparatus, systems, and methods for offloading data operations to a storage system

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