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 RTP / CTS testers are Industry Standard SSD Performance Testers and Calypso is the first and only SNIA SSSI Certified Test Lab. The newly released SNIA SSS Performance Test Specification (PTS) now allows true "apples-to-apples" comparison of SSD products and enables industry wide standardization of SSD Performance analysis.

Engineering Test Services & Test Equipment

Calypso provides Engineering Test Services and designs, manufactures and sells Industry Standard Test Equipment for SSD OEM and ODMs. Thrid Party product validation and design verification, commissioned product compairson testing, and sale of standardized SSD Reference Test Platforms help companies accelerate product development cycles, validate SSD designs, 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. Leading the SNIA Solid State Storage Technical Working Group, the Solid State Storage PTS rev 1.0 has been released for Enterprise and Client SSD test. Calypso's RTP/CTS is the PTS tester of record and has been used to develop and validate the PTS. Calypso and key TWG members from HP, Micron and hyperIO have recently published a companion white paper "Understanding SSD Performance using the PTS Test Specification."



NEWLY RELEASED
Solid State Storage
Performance Test Spec

SSS TWG Test Specifications
SSSI Press Release Jan 6, 2012
PTS Whitepaper Foreward
Understanding PTS Testing Whitepaper
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