Anyone use solid-state drive instead of hard disk drive?

[kraegar]

I've not bothered to drop the cash on them for personal use. I'm OK with the speeds I'm getting out of sata drives in a RAID array for now.

However, at work we've begun experimenting with them in our SAN, using IBM's server class SSD's (rebranded), and putting the "hot" data on them. Our storage controllers are smart enough to start noticing block write issues, and the SSD's we're getting have built-in redundancy, and early warnings for impending failures. That being said, they drastically improve performance for the entire SC when we move the hottest data to them. It's pretty cool stuff.

Tony