Latest migrations show SSD is ready for some datacenters
@ 2009/10/20When we asked the IT pros in the Server Room to name the number one barrier to solid state disk (SSD) adoption in the enterprise, "price" was the near unanimous consensus. SSD storage is still significantly more expensive than rotating magnetic media, but with datacenters becoming ever more constrained by power and cooling considerations, the overall price picture for SSD vs. HDD keeps getting better. Sure, at the level of an individual drive, the cost/GB difference between SSD and HDD is still huge, but at the level of the overall datacenter, with floor space, power, and cooling factored in, the delta now looks a lot smaller.
Many of the hard drives were only 3 years old... I bet with typical usage an Intel SSD easily would outlast 3 years... better question is if it can last 5. SLC based SSD's should easily last beyond 5...