Applications and servers see performance gains with ScaleFlux drives vs. other enterprise NVMe SSDs. By offloading the CPU from storage processing and optimizing flash memory to reduce write amplification, latency can be greatly improved, and bottlenecks alleviated by keeping traffic off the bus. By using dedicated hardware on the drive compression can be processed nearly 100x faster than in the CPU. The latency and performance improvements are direct gains from doing hardware-based compression in the SSD controller ASIC. The benefits for network traffic are more second-order improvements – by increasing the effective storage space in the server, the server can reduce the number of times it needs to fetch data from across the network, alleviating network traffic.