[nick_craver]

We'll end up paying about that for the 710s, but you have look at what we're getting for the same price. Fusion IO card dies: we're dead in the water. It takes 2-3 of the Intel 710s (in a RAID 10 like they'll be) dying to do the same. Given that the IO of our storage isn't close to being a factor, we'll always stick with the much more robust route for the same price.

[mrkurt]

Ah. Well if your RAID controller dies, you're dead in the water no? My understanding of the Fusion cards is that they're roughly as resilient as a RAIDed SSD setup.

[nick_craver]

That doesn't really happen, it's an extraordinary event that a raid controller dies. But can it happen? Sure, anything can happen...that's why we have an identical hot backup server only minutes behind on the database for just such an occasion.