Innovation Lab Intern i-0052

KIOXIA America Inc. is looking for an intern to work in our Innovation Lab. The KIOXIA Innovation Lab uses the latest in software and hardware to show off technical configurations at industry events and trade shows, make video content, work with YouTube personalities, give technical talks, and works with a writing team to create white papers on applications and performance.  While working in our lab you will be comparing competitor drives, testing our new SSDs and performing appropriate tuning to ensure our drives are aligned or exceed industry standards.

Project:

Comparison Study between MDRAID with XFS, ZFS, and BTRFS for performing software RAID-like functionality.  This includes testing File system, RAID and Trim performance impact on new KIOXIA SSDs. 

Responsibilities:

• Compare features of filesystems and the pros and cons of using each software solution
• Compare RAID 5, 6, and 10 for the three with a set amount of high performing drives (CD9-P or CM9)
• Complete appropriate tuning of each of the three to get maximized performance based off of FIO workload(s)
  • Test initial raid sets with FIO
  • Create code to run tests with a background trim and compare workload performance
  • Compare normal and Trim performance