Striping Solid State Disks

[PRC1964]

We've recently put in a couple of Intel SSDs (not RAID yet, but we will try that in the next six months) and they have tripled the speed of the SQL read/writes we are doing.

From what I've read they might wear out over a period of 5-10 years. For the cost/performance I'd still have bought them if they wore out every six months.

The day is not far away when we will look back at mechanical HDDs as bizarre old technology.

[JoJoGabor]

SSDs are becoming common place is servers, particularly Blades, and are also in place in various SAN arrays, such as Compellent, EMC and 3Par. These are acting as a tier-1 storage tier, which fit inbetween the memory cache and your fast FC or SAS disks, so I dont think reliability is an issue. If striping the data you will get an increase in performance as each disk can perform read and write simultaneously.