Ted Wobber (msft Research) brought together the following short list of SSD performance data.  Note the FusionIO part claiming 87,500 IOPS in a 640 GB package.  I need to run a perf test against that part and see if it's real.  It looks perfect for very hot OLTP workloads.

A directory of “fastest SSDs”:

http://www.storagesearch.com/ssd-fastest.html

                Note that this contains RAM SSDs as well as flash SSDs.  This list, however, seems to be ranked by bandwidth, not IOPs.

This manufacturer make a very high-end database accelerator:

http://www.stec-inc.com/technology/

Among the things that they do are:   most likely logical address re-mapping, way over-provisioning of free space, highly parallel ops

Then there are these guys who do the hard work in the host OS:

http://managedflash.com/home/index.htm

They clearly do logical address re-mapping, but their material is strangely devoid of mention of cleaning costs.  Perhaps they get “free” hints from the OS free block table.

Nevertheless, the following article is worth reading:

http://mtron.easyco.com/news/papers/easyco-flashperformance-art.pdf

FusionIO: http://fusionio.com/.

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