4/28    Anyone here have experience with solid state drives in the server
        environment? I am mostly worried about reliability, longevity, and
        performance. I've read a couple of articles saying that OSes
        really need to be SSD optimized before this can be considered
        truly viable and yet every vendor from Dell to Sun to Apple is
        shipping these. Are they ready for prime-time on an important
        production server?
        \_ Theres been a lot fo advances in SSD recently toward load levelling
           (to spread the erase cycle wear) an overall endurance.  They're
           actually a viable (if expensive) option now.   Theres been some good
           work looking at using them for ZFS logs for zvols involving lots
           of slower storage.
                If you're looking at using htem now they'll probably be
           replaced due to obsolescence before they 'go bad'.   -ERic
           \_ I'd still be a bit wary of using them for something like a
              high write db server, but yeah for user stuff go for it.