SSDs – almost at the £1/1GB price point!

After the previous article looking at the merits of a Solid State drive in a server I had a root around the Internet and found out that normal 2.5″ (Notebook PC sized) SSDs are nearly at the £1/1GB magical price point. The particular drive I’m looking at is the OCZ Technology 120GB Agility 3 from dabs.com which currently ships (free… Read more



What happens when you put a OCZ PCI-E SSD in a server?

For a while I’ve been wondering just how well a PCI-Express Solid State drive would work inside a standard off the shelf rack mounted server. Finally I have been given the chance to find out and as it turns out everything works quite nicely. The solid state in question is a OCZ Revo Drive 3 x2 240GB (from Novatech) and the server is a… Read more