Of course you need to wait, they don’t have product to sell yet. When they do, the waiting will be over.

Anyway, to the above poster, pairing SSD’s for reads with conventional hard drives for writes, is exactly what I’m testing now, with the results being dramatic. Processes finishing 8 times faster…just to tease you with some results.

Maybe Seagate is better to continue to wait on Flash SSD or go in a different direction. It has been shown for years that DRAM SSD already solves all I/O bottlenecks, working in a non-disruptive fashion with existing hard drive arrays, without the known Flash anxieties of suspect durability and non-sustainable performance. Also, as Tier 0 transaction-intensive data involves significant reading AND writing of information, why go through this standards exercise to solve only 50% the problem? Pairing Flash for incrementally faster Read performance with hard drives for Writes is a partial solution at best. With entry level units now under $10K, DRAM SSDs are actually less expensive than Flash SSDs, as less DRAM SSD capacity will provide more performance boost than multiple Flash units RAIDed together, while solving 100% of the bottleneck issues. Nothing on the market can compete on price or performance with a combination of DRAM SSD for Tier 0 needs and HDDs for capacity. For proof, use benchmarks such as Iometer or in house use cases. As for “DRAM SSD is volatile” concerns, so are servers and DRAM cache in existing storage arrays. Take the same precautions and all will be well.