Will we see SSD storage solutions in servers in 2009?

Doubtful. But I will throw the idea in the right direction.

Not sure but lets see... what comes up

I was doing a little more research on this, and it turns out that solid state storage also has a limited number of write operations that it can perform on each segment before it "wears out". Right now the work-around is a better algorithm to distribute your write operations, to not favor any one area. This would lower the probability of wearing out a segment... But honestly, I really don't see this being something that will be offered until the life expectancy increases a bit.

At least in a standard server package. However, if its something that you really need, we may be able to get some.

Maybe it can be custom ordered, but not publicly available?

One of the major benefits of our scale and top tier partnerships is the ability to work with someone to create a "build to order" solution that meets almost any requirement... and believe me, I've seen some pretty unique configurations come through.

You'll find that what we offer on the website is available the quickest and is the most affordable, but if you need something we don't advertise, just ask a sales rep if we can get it for you.

Thanks for looking into this -- I'm hoping some others here give it a try before I commit the cash

A company in chicago is offering them on their standard order form now -- pricey, with a 32 GB Intel SSD drive costing $600 one-time or $60/month (same as the price for a 146 GB 10k sas drive here at the planet.) But the "up to" 250 MB/second read and 170 MB/second write speed of these intel SSD drives has me curious. I suspect the 0.075 milliseconds read latency would be a huge access for a web/database server too.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/15931

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/25/015209

Model name
Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive

Capacity
32GB and 64GB

NAND Flash components
Intel® Single-Level Cell (SLC) NAND Flash Memory
10 Parallel Channel Architecture with 50nm SLC ONFI 1.0 NAND

Bandwidth

Sustained sequential read: up to 250 MB/s

Sustained sequential write: up to 170 MB/s

Read Latency 75 microseconds

I/O Per Second (IOPS)

Random 4KB Reads: >35,000 IOPS

Random 4KB Writes: >3,300 IOPS

Interface SATA 1.5 Gb/s and 3.0 Gb/s Form factor 2.5" by 7mm industry standard hard drive form factor Compatibility SATA Revision 2.6 Compliant. Compatible with SATA 3 Gb/s with Native Command Queuing and SATA 1.5 Gb/s interface rates

Life expectancy 2 Million Hours Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF)

Power consumption Active: 2.4W Typical (server workload¹)

Idle (DIPM): 0.06 W Typical Operating shock 1,000G / 0.5ms Voltage 5V SATA supply rail Operating temperature 0°C to +70°C RoHS compliant Meets the requirements of EU RoHS Compliance Directives Product health monitoring Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) commands, plus additional SSD monitoring

P.S. I have not used one myself yet. Until this generation of performance I wasn't very interested in them, but now they look intriguing and like they could be a game changer, at least at some point.