Do Temperature and Humidity Exposures Hurt or Benefit Your SSDs?

Adnan Maruf, Sashri Brahmakshatriya, Baolin Li, Devesh Tiwari, Gang Quan, Janki Bhimani

Abstract: SSDs are becoming mainstream data storage de-vices, replacing HDDs in most data centers, consumer goods, and IoT gadgets. In this work, we ask an uncharted research question: What is the environmental conditions' impact on SSD performance? To answer it, we systematically measure, quantify, and characterize the impact of various commonly changing envi-ronmental conditions such as temperature and humidity on the performance of SSDs. Our experiments and analysis uncover that exposure to changes in temperature and humidity can significantly affect SSD performance.