Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Solid State Drives?

2007-01-06 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 10:39:59PM -0800, Anton B. Rang wrote: Summary (1.8 form factor): write: 35MB/Sec, Read: 62MB/Sec IOPS: 7,000 That is on par with a 5400 rpm disk, except for the 100x more small, random read iops. The biggest issue is the pricing, which will become

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Solid State Drives?

2007-01-06 Thread Anton B. Rang
$600+ for a 32 GB device isn't exactly competitive, though the low-power and random access are attractive. Look at previous SSD offerings. $600 is a steal. ;) This isn't a performance-oriented SSD, since it's using Flash RAM (limited lifetime, slow writes). It's really meant as a hard