George Crump: Every vendor is laying out its solid-state disk (SSD) strategy. He says SSDs’ primary function is to accelerate databases. Implementing SSD can reduce the number of physical spindles required, save power and save power. Storage manufacturers will likely have to come out with specific shelves for just SSD, he says. Crump says Flash-based SSD is acceptable for read-heavy environments, but there remains concern about reliability and random write I/O performance.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/ssds-are-not-confusing