[ivox3]

.....and an old fashioned butt stompin to boot.

For those of you who are either on the fence or just don't know the substantial difference that moving away from a traditional HD to an SSD can do for you, then this is for you.

They're expensive, but pricing is getting better... Not to mention that the Intel's Gen2 stuff is about to come out en masse which should help the gen 1 pricing be a bit friendlier -- at least I'm hoping.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Jz7IMwBt4

[-Adrian]

But what about reliability, i heard they still suffer from low write-cycles. This is important.

Über RAID

[ivox3]

Early version had some issues here ...

Just skim this article a bit and I think the matter is basically a non-issue at present.

http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html

This article does a nice job of understanding NAND pricing and costs with SSD's.
http://www.denali.com/wordpress/index.p ... l#comments



So, they're not going to be a dime a dozen anytime soon.... What ya gonna do, spend more money, it's what we do. Lol.

On a good note, processing power is down, ...so there's a pretty even offset.