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Subject: Re: ZFS melting under postgres...
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Ivan Voras wrote:
> Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> 
>> That's no longer true. You can't get more than 5-10MB/s from
>> seek-intensive RAID0 with two 15K drives, while 20-30MB/s is not a
>> problem for the comparable priced/sized SSD drive.
> 
> Can you point me at a vendor with SSDs of such characteristics?

You can get 64GB SSD now below US$1K, which is comparable price-wise to 
RAID0 with two 70GB 15K SAS drives. For example:

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=341-5582&cs=04&c=us&l=en&dgc=SS&cid=25747&lid=585572

-Maxim