To put it another way, Spinning disks can do ~1MB/sec random writes, SSDs can do about ~40Mb/sec and with only 3 (pairs if RAID) of disks you can saturate a 1GB

To put it another way, Spinning disks can do ~1MB/sec random writes, SSDs can do about ~40Mb/sec and with only 3 (pairs if RAID) of disks you can saturate a 1GBit network connection. http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631&p=22 http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631&p=2...