Solid State Drives

Here's an interesting article on solid state drives.

Some key figures:

• the price of flash memory keeps dropping at about 40% each year
  
• streaming read/write speeds of 57MB/s and 32MB/s, respectively
  
• latency less than 1ms
  
• 10-15 times faster than hard disks
  
• 95% power reduction
  
• 5000 I/Os per second, versus 100 I/Os per second for HDD