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Recently I have seen several articles about Solid State Drives (SSD) and some articles are picking 2009 to be the year of the SSD. While I agree SSD’s will bring some great benefits in the years to come, I wanted to clarify the current state of SSD’s in relation to usage in the database field. A primary misconception is that because SSD’s are a type of “memory chip” storage that they are super fast, like system RAM and using them to house a database will make the database super fast. SSD’s are very different from system RAM because of course their data must be persisted and this requirement carries a major performance impact.
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