Is it fair for people to compare the price per gigabyte of hard disk drives versus SSDs?
Peters: Sure, it’s fair to compare. But, it depends what you’re going to do and what you’re actually storing. There will be some instances where you can compare all you like, but cost doesn’t matter, such as an airline reservation or something like that. In that case, you’re using it as an absolute tier for the absolute best performance, and, therefore, cost is not irrelevant, but it’s certainly low on the list. In other areas, if you’re using solid-state disks as a caching device for Web videos or whatever’s popular at that particular moment, you may have a different view of this. So, is it fair to consider the price per gigabyte versus hard drives? Absolutely. But, is it the only way, the main way, the optimum way? Absolutely not. SearchStorage.com: What about the different types of solid-state storage? Should the storage admin do some homework and suggest a particular type of SSD to upper management? Peters: Categorically, yes. There are many different types of SSDs out there. Typic
