Fast is a relative term, because even after the first write to the end, they are still really fast for a small server and the latency is still low <1ms which is often more important than throughput. The topic said poor mans slog. The vertexes can be had for $100 and the vertex turbo a little more. SLC is still pretty expensive. There's is a trim utility for the ssd but even after filling the drive for the first time its still fast enough to help dedup performance and is faster than large sata drives or raidz especially when it comes to latency.
Check out the reviews on newegg before you buy anything of course. They usually contain some pretty good info on the SSDs in question. I think someone else posted their experience with the vertex drives in the forum as well. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
