Sort of. For sequential I/O, you'd only see 10x if you use an interface faster than SATA for the SSD. Otherwise, you're limited to 600MB/s, which is only 3x a m

Sort of. For sequential I/O, you'd only see 10x if you use an interface faster than SATA for the SSD. Otherwise, you're limited to 600MB/s, which is only 3x a modern Barracuda. For 4K random I/Os, you might actually get better than 10x out of an SSD. Though, does anyone have real-world experience with sustained random I/O this much smaller than the underlying native block size? Do the published IOPS numbers last 24x7 or does performance start falling off after some number of hours/days?