Internally preconditioning solid state drives for various workloads

A system for internally preconditioning a solid state drive (SSD), the system comprising:

• a memory;
• a non-volatile memory (NVM);
• a processor coupled to the memory and the NVM and configured to:
• (1) receive a plurality of preselected precondition parameters comprising an invalidity distribution across ribbons, a transfer size of workloads, and a randomness of workloads;
• (2) generate workload data comprising a preselected percentage of random data and a preselected percentage of non-random data, wherein the preselected percentage of random data and the preselected percentage of non-random data are based on the randomness of workloads parameter;
• (3) determine a plurality of preselected physical block addresses (PBAs) of a ribbon of the NVM using the invalidity distribution across ribbons parameter;
• (4) write a portion of the workload data to each of the preselected PBAs of the ribbon using a preselected transfer size until the ribbon is full, wherein the preselected transfer size is based on the transfer size of workloads parameter;
• (5) mark all PBAs of the ribbon that were not preselected using the invalidity distribution across ribbons parameter as being invalid;
• and
• (6) repeat (2) to (5) until a preselected end condition is met.