Quote Originally Posted by Bobsama View Post
Only thing is SSDs have lost traction in data centers. Their failure rates are astonishing--especially compared to HDDs. You simply can't rely on them--and replacing a drive twice or more a year becomes quite a burden on human resources. For the price of a decent SSD, you can buy a high-grade SCSI drive of equal capacity, though that SCSI drive has an advantage in reliability and they're about equal in read/write speeds. Only thing is SSDs have nearly no access time, though that doesn't help them once they start dying.

You mean NAND SSD's.

DRAM based SSD's (like Ramsans) are very common in banks, financial centers, military. That's all they use. The only place for hard drives is backup. Their technology is proven, much faster than NAND, much more reliable, but also $$$$$$$$. Most enterprise usage patterns don't even look at STR - it's a useless metric. IOPS with representative usage patterns is far more important, and DRAM based SSD's are 100's of times faster.