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SSDs in your database server is a wonderful thing.

Netflix appears to be using SSD instances for their Cassandra deployment on AWS.[1]

Also, more and more hosting providers start offering SSD-based products (e.g. DigitalOcean)

[1]: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/benchmarking-high-perfor...

DigitalOcean[1] is a ssd-only VM provider, by their numbers they should have a few TB in SSD storage. Not that large, but would be interesting to hear about their experiences.

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/

Yes. It would be interesting to read about their experiences as I presume most large SSD deployments would be for databases only.

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