Solid State Drives


Industry Analysts
Coughlin Associates
Forward Insights
Gartner/Dataquest
In-Stat
Isuppli
Objective Analysis
StorageSearch
Web-Feet Research
Westwood Marketing

Standardization of SSD Performance Test

Calypso has specialized expertise in Solid State Storage test and measurement with an emphasis in device level Performance analysis. Calypso leads industry development of NAND Flash based SSD test metrics, methodologies and performance tests that help establish common test practices, allow "apples-to-apples" comparison of SSD products, and enable industry wide standardization of SSD Performance analysis.

Engineering Test Services & Test Equipment

Calypso provides Engineering Test Services and designs, manufactures and sells Custom Test Equipment for SSD and Controller OEMs. Independent product validation, commissioned product compairsons, and sale of standardized SSD Reference Testers help companies accelerate product development cycles and shorten time-to-market.

Fostering Adoption of Solid State Storage

Calypso Systems, Inc. is working to further the standardization and adoption of Solid State Storage in conjunction with industry associations and standards groups. Calypso conducts annual "state-of-the-industry" Blind Surveys of the latest SSD products. Calypso actively contributes to, leads and validates proposed SSD Performance Specificaitons under development in the SNIA SSS Technical Working Group and Solid State Storage Initiative.



NEWLY RELEASED
Solid State Storage
Performance Test Spec
SSS TWG Test Specification
SSSI Press Release July 9, 2010
Test Benchmarking Whitepaper
Reference Test Platform Whitepaper
SSSI Blog


Industry Associations
Solid State Storage Initiative
SSS Technical Working Group
JEDEC
SSD Alliance
IDEMA
T13 Tech Comm