There is a process to follow to ensure that an investment in solid-state disks is useful and will pay for itself quickly
By George Crump, February 24, 2009, 1:30 PM
Solid-state disks (SSDs) are an investment that requires serious forethought and a deeper understanding of your storage architecture. How does an IT manager know when to invest in SSDs, and how can he feel confident that the investment is going to pay off? These questions are becoming more relevant as the cost of SSDs has continued to decline over the past few years. This decline has increased the number of application workload scenarios that would be well suited to SSDs.