SSDs are good for Peer To Peer Synchronized Storage

There has been a lot of press recently regarding the strides that Solid State Drives are making. Take a look at this article:

http://weblog.infoworld.com/storageadviser/archives/2008/09/taking_a_global.html

It talks about the likelyhood of cheaper SSDs.

There is one point I would like to make regarding SSDs - they have very low seek times. This means that you do not need an array of disks to sustain high throughput from the disk subsystem.

To us here at Thinsy, this is good news. If you do not need to connect to an array of drives to get the throughput for multiple VMs, then the only reason left to move storage to a SAN is for high availability. Our technology eliminates that last reason as well. We synchronize the virtual disks from one server on to another. This means we can do High Availbility without a SAN.