Intel has announced an 80-GB Solid State Disk for less than $600. The end for the mechanical drive may get here within the next five years, says George Crump. The current storage drive shelves and controllers need to be optimized for this zero latency environment, he says. Crump expects to see a broader application of SSD across ever-growing chunks of Tier One storage with some sort of automated data movement in and out of the SSD areas. The move will likely not be controller driven and will be done either by a global file system or a specific but simple software data mover.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/ssd-domination-sooner-than-you-think