Posted 10/19/2009 at 06:17:16pm

It depends what size drive you're running.  If you read the case study, MySpace made the change for their cacheing servers.  Basically RAM on hard drives.  So performance is everything, not capacity.  They needed 12 magnetic drives using RAID to get the I/O that one of the SSDs can provide.  I'm sure they have other storage arrays using 1TB or larger drives that provide long term storage for all the data.

Posted 06/28/2009 at 01:52:58pm

Looks like Intel changed that "How to Buy" link.  It used to be very helpful.  I bought mine from Insight. (www.insight.com) when it was on sale for ~$240.  Also seen it on PC Connection and PC Mall for ~$350.  It doesn't come with any drives, so those are extra....

Posted 06/27/2009 at 09:52:25pm

Intel and EMC have made a product that's better.  It's been out for awhile.  Holds up to 4 drives (any 4 you want) supports RAID 1, 5, 10.  Has software to automatically backup your PCs, can stream to PS3, Xbox, Mac, PC, Linux.  You can plug in additional USB or eSATA drives (or digital camera, thumb drives, printers) for shareing.  You can even upload files to it via bluetooth.  It supports NFS file shares and can be setup for FTP and SMTP, or e-mail alerts.  It will spin down the drives after an adjustable period of inactivity.  And its fast.......

http://www.intel.com/products/server/storage-systems/ss4200-e/ss4200-e-overview.htm