This is a note containing links on the general topic of low-cost SSD products and reviews for server use and will evolve over time.
Note that there are numerous problems with enterprise server use of notebook flash SSDs, that hopefully will be resolved by 2012:
- not yet hot-swappable
- limited lifespan, MLC even moreso than SLC
- relatively untested under continuous load or in harsh electrical environments, like data centers.
- lack of software, such as production-ready OS drivers and mgmt. tools, such as an online defragmentation utility
- cost per TB
Canned Google Search
cnet.com: SSD News Posts
2008
Kevin Burton’s New Feedblog
Sept, 2008
anandtech: Intel X25-M SSD: Intel Delivers One of the World’s Fastest Drives
tomshardware: Intel’s X25-M Solid State Drive Reviewed : Intel’s First Flash SSD Ready for Vertical Take-Off
Oct, 2008
cnet.com: Intel X-25M solid-state drive (80GB)
Nov, 2008
2008 Disk Performance, by Tim Bray, Sun
Dec, 2008
bit-tech.net: G.Skill, Intel X25-M & Patriot SSD group test
theinquirer.net: Toshiba announces the first 512GB SSD
Jan, 2009
cnet.com: Buyer beware: Solid-state drive prices vary–a lot
legionhardware.com: G.Skill Titan SSD 128GB
techreport: A Look at 4 X25-E Extreme SSDs in RAID
Feb, 2009
cnet: Intel solid-state drive price cuts enough?
pcperspective.com: Long-term performance analysis of Intel Mainstream SSDs
theregister: Intel refutes SSD slowdown accusation
Ted Tso: Aligning filesystems to an SSD’s erase block size
March, 2009
wsj: Sun, Rivals Seek New Uses for Flash-Based Storage
cnet.com: Fusion-io touts ‘fastest’ solid-state drive
anandtech.com: SSD versus Enterprise SAS and SATA disks
MySQL Performance Blog: SSD, XFS, LVM, fsync, write cache, barrier and lost transactions
April, 2009
pcper.com: Intel Responds to Fragmentation with New X25-M Firmware
James Hamilton: SSD versus Enterprise SATA and SAS disks
May, 2009
Computerworld: Analysis: SSD performance — is a slowdown inevitable?
June, 2009
storagemojo.com: Outrageously cool new hard drive
pcper.com: Indilinx based OCZ Vertex and Super Talent UltraDrive ME SSDs Reviewed, TRIM comments
OCZ Support Forums: Summit FW Upgrade?
July, 2009
Solid-State Drive Benchmarks and the Write Cache
Oct, 2009
intel forums: Limited write (erase) cycles
blog.fastmail.fm: The state of SSD storage for a database server
Nov, 2009
theregister: Brace of Intel SSDs imminent
theinquirer.net: One Terabyte SSD hits the shops
Dec, 2009
theregister.co.uk: Say hello to Seagate’s Pulsar SSD
May, 2010
theregister.co.uk: Seagate Momentus XT hybrid notebook drive
June, 2010
theregister: WD SiliconEdge Blue 256GB SSD
July 2010
bit-tech.net: Mac SSD performance and TRIM in OSX
Resources
StorageMojo Blog
StorageSearch.com
WD VelociRaptor
Western Digital RE4-GP 2TB Review: Big Green Gets Meaner!
blogs.sun.com: MySQL Performance on Sun Storage 7000
MySQLConf 09: Don MacAskill, “The SmugMug Tale”
enterprisestorageforum.com: Solid-State Drives Tag Index
Keywords: ssd, review, performance, linux, intel, velociraptor