1. You can kill a consumer-grade SSD surprisingly quickly if its being hammered with writes all day in a server. (Or at least, you can exceed the manufacturer's

1. You can kill a consumer-grade SSD surprisingly quickly if its being hammered with writes all day in a server. (Or at least, you can exceed the manufacturer's recommendations, and do you really want to do that in a server?) 2. SSD should be compared to a RAID of HDDs for a realistic test 3. The article says that they want to use it to store operational stats and log files - in this case I'd spend time testing PostgreSQL's transaction and sync tunables and probably arrive at some acceptable settings which work fine on a HDD. With this sort of workload, it is easy to make Postgres combine multiple transactions into fewer I/Os.