> > However, make sure you do the reading on the SSDs you're going to purchase > because not all SSDs are created equal. I had a client buy some smaller > OCZ-Vertex 3s recently which have a wear leveling issue (the 120GB drives > have fewer chips than the 240GB drives) that causes performance to fall > apart pretty quickly. >
You might also consider making sure to get drives with super-caps on them so you don't lose writes in the SSD's write cache on power loss. Theoretically, Riak's read-repair facility should compensate for this, but I like my data to be as consistent as possible at the block level. -J
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