NetApp this week began to enhance its solid-state disk strategy. The challenge has been that SSD is being viewed as a game changer offering 30X performance. Inserting this technology into systems that were designed for comparatively clunky mechanical drives caused a number of problems. The SSD channel has to be independent of the mechanical drive channel. Mixing the two technologies into the same shelf or bus will deliver less-than-desirable results. For raw block storage support of SSD, you can just attach it to your SAN and manage it separately.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/an-ssd-strategy-we-can-believe-in-