SSD and Price fights - Splitting Based On Applications

• The first method to fight the high price of SSD - is using it for specific applications:
  • Either applications where performance will give you the best ROI (Return On Investment)
  • Or applications that won't work in time without the increased performance.
• The problems:
  • Putting SSDs inside traditional RAID systems - eliminates most performance gains.
  • Putting SSDs outside the RAID systems - eliminates the ease of use of a single storage management system and the storage applications support of the large RAID manufacturers (snapshots, mirroring, cloning...)

Originally written by guy keren