All storage except multimedia will be SSDs soon
It seems the cost today is about $2 / GB and dropping at a good clip.
The Intel 320 drives are interesting as historically on low cost style SSDs write iops have been lower than reads (albeit still very fast compared to spinning disks). The numbers below are the Intel specs.
Random 4KB Reads
- 40GB up to 30,000 IOPS
- 80GB up to 38,000 IOPS
- 120GB up to 38,000 IOPS
- 160GB up to 39,000 IOPS
- 300GB up to 39,500 IOPS
- 600GB up to 39,500 IOPS
Random 4KB Writes
- 40GB up to 3,700 IOPS
- 80GB up to 10,000 IOPS
- 120GB up to 14,000 IOPS
- 160GB up to 21,000 IOPS
- 300Gb up to 23,000 IOPS
- 600GB up to 23,000 IOPS
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