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@SkylarM Ask him directly
You caught us! We updated the site this morning with preliminary plans, we're anticipating a short and small testing period with our new SSD nodes later in the week, hopefully with a rollout somewhere thereafter.
Intent is to run these alongside our HDD offering at comparable rates, with different disk values relating to the difference in drives.
This will be a pure SSD offer, no SSD-caching trickery here. As of this moment, current services are NOT eligible to transfer, but we do intend to open to that option at a later date. Likely a client area announcement when we begin offering such.
Page content will change later and so forth, but for now: https://crissic.net/openvz_ssd_vps
@SkylarM - This is sweet. Lots of SSD for the $
We'll have opening deals on this that are lower than listed rates
Stay tuned!
You'd be surprised, SSD's are getting a lot cheaper. Example:
Samsung 840 1TB SSD $470
Crucial MX100 512GB SSD $213
+1 @SkylarM Nice packages and value!
Hopefully they keep dropping. Would love to see SSD's become more main-stream rather than a "premium" feature in the low end segment.
Yes the 'consumer grade' SSD's are getting cheaper, but the server class SSD's are still sitting at expensive numbers. SanDisk 800GB SAS SSD drives for enterprise arrays, are still sitting at $2500 a pop.
Samsung 840 Pro were basically enterprise-grade, 850 Pro are definitely enterprise grade. I know Crucial M500/M550 hold up quite well in servers, and perform decently in RAID. Even Intel's 3500 drives aren't that expensive now. Anything with a Sandforce controller should definitely be avoided.
For those interested, we will be doing a limited test period (24-36 hours) starting either late Friday night or Saturday morning, just to make sure everything works as we expect it to.
If anyone wants to spin up a test VM, toss me a PM and we'll add you to our list. We'll send out a temp order link when it's ready to test. We will only accept users that are active in the LET community.
For those wondering, bit behind schedule but our test setup is ready and we have a few testers. Could use a few more for those interested just toss me a PM
Speedtest from it available here... http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/672325/#Comment_672325