Hi,

I think that the degradation issue is one that mainly affects mainstream SSDs and not the enterprise versions.

From what I've read, file fragmentation will not slow down an SSD at all, as the latency for finding the fragmentation just isn't there. The latency for writes has to do with how SSDs perform writes. The cell it is writing to has to be emptied before it can be written to, so has two write operations per "real" write command.

I don't agree with Steve's opinion that it will take quite a few years before SSD catches up with HDD (both capacity and deployment). SSDs are already available at 512GB and all the SSD companies are putting in the hours to get and keep pole position on both performance and capacity.

I reckon that we'll see the first 1TB drives sometime next year (if not this year) and that by 2011 you'll see SSD taking huge chunks out of the HDD market. The savings in energy and I/O per $ are just too attractive.

I still want a FusionIo though, those things make SSDs look like normal HDDs!