[ajtaylor]

I was at a linux user group meeting recently where a talk was given by a Google sysadmin where he talked about hard drive reliability. Someone asked him about SSDs to which he replied that he couldn't talk about it. My take is that they are definitely trying out SSDs, but either 1) found SSDs provide a huge competitive benefit and don't want to publicly share that knowledge or 2) they simply don't have enough data yet. I'm leaning towards #1.