I still think SSD is a mere diversion in storage. According to Jason Hoffman (CTO/Founder of Joyent, speaking on Structure'09), SSD under their typical workload

I still think SSD is a mere diversion in storage. According to Jason Hoffman (CTO/Founder of Joyent, speaking on Structure'09), SSD under their typical workload can only last for a month before wearing out: http://gigaom.com/2009/06/25/structure-09-how-to-scale-up-with-distributed-data-storage/ http://gigaom.com/2009/06/25/structure-09-how-to-scale-up-wi... Cheap commodity disks however have an annualized failure rate of 4% in Google's datacenter (according to their disk analysis paper.)