Don't get suckered into solid state disks based on seek time alone. Examining all the solid state disks on the market, there is no doubt that for workstations and servers, SSD's offer a panacea - lower temperatures, less power consumption, fast access times.
BUT:
Be not fooled by cheaper SSD's offering lowly SATA (100Mb/sec) transfer rates. Despite the exellent seek time, the relatively poor transfer rate and SATA speeds will hamper IO.
Examples of nifty SCSI-based SSD's:
http://www.storageflex.com/s6.htm
Be not fooled also by FLASH-based SSD's. They are slower for writes that DRAM-based SSD's
Be careful in your selection: if an SSD seems really cheap, it is for a very good reason.
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