OSSD: A case for object-based solid state drives

The notion of object-based storage devices (OSDs) has been proposed to overcome the limitations of the traditional block-level interface which hinders the development of intelligent storage devices. The main idea of OSD is to virtualize the physical storage into a pool of objects and offload the burden of space management into the storage device. We explore the possibility of adopting this idea for solid state drives (SSDs). The proposed object-based SSDs (OSSDs) allow more efficient management of the underlying flash storage, by utilizing object-aware data placement, hot/cold data separation, and QoS support for prioritized objects. We propose the software stack of OSSDs and implement an OSSD prototype using an iSCSI-based embedded storage device. Our evaluations with various scenarios show the potential benefits of the OSSD architecture.

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