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Interesting.

I'm pretty sure your claim about the 45,000 IOPs being the most of any SATA SSDs is no longer true.

The (consumer grade) Intel 520 SSDs claim 80,000 random write IOPs, and I think I remember seeing the cheaper SATA SSDs on the Dell R720s doing 100K+ (obviously the SAS SSDs do more as do FusionIOs and PCI based express flash)

But to bring it back to Ubuntu - do you use the Ubuntu OpenStack distribution or what?

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You're probably right, it was actually Micron's claim that we used (end of first paragraph: http://www.micron.com/products/solid-state-storage/enterpris...).

They're still ridiculously fast. Once we can justify the expense, I would love to get Fusion-IO's or the Micron P320h's on our platform.

Regarding Ubuntu, we're just using the vanilla Ubuntu 12.04 server distribution for our image templates. Of course, if people wanted OpenStack we would support it and possibly create another template for easy provisioning.

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