We want to empower you by offering new hardware that can better meet your needs and expectations as the technology marketplace continues to evolve. We are pleased to offer the Intel 80GB solid state drive as an add-on to most of our Power and Enterprise servers in the ServerBeach catalogueue
Highlights
- Faster start-up because no spin-up is required.
- Fast random access because there is no read/write head
- Low read latency times, in applications where hard disk seeks are the limiting factor, this results in faster boot and application launch times.
- Consistent read performance because physical location of data is irrelevant for SSDs.
- File fragmentation has negligible effect.
- Silent operation due to the lack of moving parts.
- High mechanical reliability, as the lack of moving parts almost eliminates the risk of "mechanical" failure.
- Failures occur less frequently when writing/erasing data, which means there is a lower chance of irrecoverable data damage.
There have been a number of tests run to determine the benefits of these drives and below are some graphs to adequately show the benefits of these drives. IOMeter is an open source (originally developed by Intel) tool that can measure I/O performance in almost any way you can imagine. You can test random or sequential accesses (or a combination of the two), read or write operations (or a combination of the two), in blocks from a few KB to several MB. Whatever the goal, IOMeter can generate a workload and measure how fast the I/O system performs. SQLIO is a tool provided by Microsoft that can determine the I/O capacity of a given disk subsystem. It should simulate somewhat how MS SQL 2000/2005 accesses the disk subsystem. 
PEER 1 wants you to be able to make the most informed decision possible so we would encourage you to contact our sales staff to help get more information or check out this link from Intel.
