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Today, there are many ways to install solid-state storage into servers, and the number of use cases for this type of flash storage technology has grown over the last few years. Everything in a server, from operating-system code to business-critical data, can benefit from the higher performance and lower latency of flash, especially when it is located close to the host processor(s). There are lots of decisions to be made before you buy, however. So you need to know about the various form factors, interfaces, protocols and capacities involved, as well as the advantages, limitations and potential disadvantages of server-side solid-state storage. Advantages of server-side flash storage Back in 2010, we started using solid-state drives (SSDs) as boot drives for our servers and immediately reaped the benefits. These included reduced boot times, faster application load times and more consistent performance for any OS component or application stored on the SSD. We also observed smoother overall system performance when OS paging files ...