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My experience

20kwfence 25th Sep 2009

I run Intel Extreme SSD's in 3 of our servers. I replaced a 5 disk raid array with 1 drive and the performance is actually better with the SSD. Not everyone could do this though. I don't have much data on that particular machine but 200+ users hit it at once.
One machine processes data from an FTP server running an SSD and it cut the processing time to 1/3 it's original going from a sata hdd to the ssd.
I flashed the firmware on the drives with an update from Intel this week and it seems to have made the performance even better.
By the way, the primary server, Windows 2003 x64 on an IBM Xserver, boots in 20 seconds, once you get past the lengthy bios post on that machine.
They are expensive and low capacity but they have dropped by half or more in price since I bought them.
I'm a believer.