💾 Micron 5200 5210 Ion 1.92 TB SSD - SATA 600-2.5" Drive - Read Intensive - 0.8 DWPW - Internal - 540 MB/s Max. Read Speed - 260 MB/s Max. Write Speed - Review

For enterprise SSDs this option seems to be available. The disk write speed of 0.8 was a good balance for the intended disk usage. Being a micron is also a plus. As with all corporate devices, do your homework. I compared Intel, HP and newer Segate SSD. The main factors were warranty, life expectancy depending on usage and price. For half the fare in horsepower if it's worth it. Will be updated when something changes.

As with the enterprise SSDs, this option looks affordable. The disk write speed of 0.8 was a good balance for the intended disk usage. Being a micron is also a plus. As with all corporate devices, do your homework. I compared Intel, HP and newer Segate SSD. The main factors were warranty, life expectancy depending on usage and price. For half the fare in horsepower if it's worth it. Will be updated when something changes.

Decent performance for the price - definitely faster than SAS 10k drives when it comes to IOPS. Those 10,000 SAS can run slightly faster on sequential reads. Reading a sequential large file got me around 1GB/s, but swapping out for these SATA SSDs got me around 700MB/s - still good enough for what I need. But the BIG improvement is virtual machine loading. If I need to shut down the server and spin up 7-10 VMs, it's done in about 30 seconds. Whereas those 10,000 SAS drives took 10-15 MINUTES.