You will probably start to. The intel 320 series is getting some attention now [1] with a combination of competitive ( for SSD ) price and enough capacitors on

You will probably start to. The intel 320 series is getting some attention now [1] with a combination of competitive ( for SSD ) price and enough capacitors on board to flush the write cache on a power failure. You'd likely use SSDs first for indexes, then data. Transaction logs are usually a sequential workload and 7200 rpm drives often suffice. [1] http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2011-03/msg00342.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2011-03/msg...