We'll end up paying about that for the 710s, but you have look at what we're getting for the same price. Fusion IO card dies: we're dead in the water. It takes 2-3 of the Intel 710s (in a RAID 10 like they'll be) dying to do the same. Given that the IO of our storage isn't close to being a factor, we'll always stick with the much more robust route for the same price.
Ah. Well if your RAID controller dies, you're dead in the water no? My understanding of the Fusion cards is that they're roughly as resilient as a RAIDed SSD setup.
That doesn't really happen, it's an extraordinary event that a raid controller dies. But can it happen? Sure, anything can happen...that's why we have an identical hot backup server only minutes behind on the database for just such an occasion.
