Quote Originally Posted by 'Sam DeathWalker',index.php?page=Thread&postID=46118#po st46118
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In this application, this is the only advantage. Random seek time in standard drives is <10ms. SSD's have no moving parts and therefor in a high random I/O scenario they are perfect. In large sequential reads, SSD's are less than ideal since traditional drives have a much higher sustained throughput rate.

We looked at this for database applications at work but we are out pacing the drive growth by 2 to 3 times what they are increasing in size. Temp DB logs run stupid fast off of these things though.....

Personally, my next laptop will be SSD, but that's for the power consumption savings, nothing to do with the drive speeds.

SSD's will start to be more common over the next 3 to 5 years as price/unit comes down.