While SSD's (Solid State Disks) have traditionally not been the best hardware to use for rewrite-intensive operations like databases, over the last few months, some leading Linux kernel engineers have been raving about next generation Intel SSD's that are close to 20x faster than the fastest disk drives for random access. If robust enough, these next generation SSD's may greatly improve relational database performance.
Is anyone using SSD drives currently and can share their experiences? Also, even if they are currently poor for writing, they would make a fantastic slave drive for mega-fast access I would think right? Our current DB is about 80GB and over 1/2 billion rows in each of two of the tables. Reports are starting to take as long as 20 seconds to generate. ...and don't get me started on export/import (it can take DAYS to import).
