What are the topmost reasons of NVMe Growth?

NVMe, the host controller interface which is known for its immense scalability is designed primarily for the enterprise and for client SSDs over PCIe. Being an advanced interface, it utilizes a single message transfer of just 4KB rather than a single queue in AHCI and SATA interfaces. This has immensely improved server processing with multiple disk I/O requests on a simultaneous basis.

NVMe SSDs are now gaining prominence, achieving 3 GB/s of bandwidth for reading. A 2014 report states that PCIe will soon become a giant in the field of interfaces by 2018 for data center SSDs. Forward Insights also forecasted that PCIe will grab 75% market share by the same year because of its performance and M.2 form factor.

Scalable Performance Selection is the prime driver for NVMe growth, thus allowing OEMs to deliver right performance point for drives. The price benefits are then even given to customers. It’s high IOPS efficiency in random and sequential workloads is magnificent. Its large application base boosts system performance while reducing the overall form factor while overcoming its capacity restrictions.

Additionally, NVMe includes a large number of Native OS drivers that reduces time-to-market and thus make it available for varied operating systems. Finally, interoperability drives NVMe SSDs growth, enabling OEMs to ensure device performance in multi-interface environments

eInfochips has been instrumental in creating comprehensive verification and validation test suites for product designs based on NVMe, sufficing both System and Silicon level test requirements.