Anyone running SSD's yet?

Elric · 4 Apr 2008 at 23:21

Specifically, if anyone is running a pair in raid 0, if so, how do you find them?

ih8modem · 6 Apr 2008 at 00:50

no

They just too damn expensive, and still slow. the ones that are likely to be of any use are going to be very very expensive.

I saw earlier today there is a 250GB version recently released, cost is around $5000-00 (yes thats 5k!)

Zarf · 6 Apr 2008 at 01:48

TBH, i'm more interested in the FusionIO drives at this point.

they come as expansion cards and connect over PCI-Express x4 for 700MB/s sustained reads and 80000 IOPS.
Pricing is surprisingly competitive with ordinary SSD's considering it has 10 times the performance - $2400 for 80GB, and they also do 160 and 320 GB versions.

fini · 6 Apr 2008 at 01:57

Running an SSD here, but only a single one, in an Eeepc

PhillyDee · 6 Apr 2008 at 02:47

fini said:
Running an SSD here, but only a single one, in an Eeepc

Heh, thats the noise i make when i see the price of an SSD.

Mud · 6 Apr 2008 at 04:43

A few of us are, but it's a fairly high price to pay for a decent I/O rate (sacrificing sustained read/write). For the cheaper SSDs RAID0 is just an attempt to get the sustained speed back up to platter rates.