I've been looking in to this recently (ref: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1567330 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1567330) I just tested the speed of

I've been looking in to this recently (ref: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1567330 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1567330) I just tested the speed of the elastic block storage on my EC2 instance with HDTune: http://i.imgur.com/Lbgjy.png http://i.imgur.com/Lbgjy.png vs crap assed 64GB SSD I bought for my netbook last fall: http://i.imgur.com/r2eaw.png http://i.imgur.com/r2eaw.png I've been frustrated with IO speeds on EC2 the last few months, but this pushed me over the edge. I'm buying components to roll my own server.