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hot-cold-data-separation · shipping · also update-frequency data separation

Hot/cold data separation

A flash-placement strategy that groups data by update frequency so frequently overwritten pages and long-lived pages need not share the same cleaning pool.

Hot and cold refer to update frequency, not physical temperature or hot/cold storage tiers. Spare-space allocation between pools matters alongside classification and block selection.

Relations

related
greedy-garbage-collection, garbage-collection, over-provisioning, ftl

Limitations

Citations

  1. Peter Desnoyers. Analytic Modeling of SSD Write Performance. SYSTOR 2012, sections 2-6, Tables 1-2. DOI: 10.1145/2367589.2367603. (accessed 2026-10-11)
  2. Hesela: SSD over-provisioning, capacity denominators and analytical-model limits (accessed 2026-10-11)

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