The actual paper has much more information than the fluffy article that is linked here.<p>From the paper: &quot;The drives in our study are custom designed high performance
solid state drives, which are based on commodity
flash chips, but use a custom PCIe interface, firmware
and driver.&quot;<p>These aren&#x27;t drives that you can just go out and buy, so brands and model numbers would be meaningless to anyone outside of Google.<p>Link to the paper: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;0b4af6cdc2f0c5998459-c0245c5c937c5dedcca3f1764ecc9b2f.r43.cf2.rackcdn.com&#x2F;23105-fast16-papers-schroeder.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;0b4af6cdc2f0c5998459-c0245c5c937c5dedcca3f1764ecc9b2f...</a>