speed up queries with sdd

[Nicholas Leippe]

OCZ's Revodrive give a lot more bang/$ than fusion IO IMO. My 240GB
card does over 100,000 IOPS (or >700MB/s read/write) and it's less
than $500 now. Their newest card doubles that rate (but costs ~$800
for 240GB).

As for the alarmism, yes, this was fairly well debunked years ago here:

http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html

short answer: 51 years before failure in a worst-case write pattern.