A system and method for using a Solid State Drive (SSD) (505) are described. Reception circuitry (510) may receive write requests (1610, 1615, 1620, 1625) and invalidate requests (1630, 1635, 1640) from a first stream (305, 320, 335, 350). The write requests (1610, 1615, 1620, 1625) may request that data be written to storage (520) on the SSD (505); invalidate requests (1630, 1635, 1640) may invalidate data written to the storage (520). A statistics calculation logic (1705) may calculate statistics (1410, 1415, 1510) for the stream based on the write requests (1610, 1615, 1620, 1625) and the invalidate requests (1630, 1635, 1640). A performance logic (1710) may use the calculated statistics (1410, 1415, 1510) to improve the performance of the SSD (505).