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by wazoox 5415 days ago
In my experience, SSD work great in RAID-5 or RAID-6 setups, even for database workloads (blasphemy!). In fact, 6 or 8 consumer SSDs in a RAID-5 array will put your huge FC array of 15k drives to shame.

Here is a benchmark I've run (vertical numbers are transactions/s, horizontal number of threads) : http://blogs.intellique.com/images/comp-ssd-db.png