The three announcements just released by Oracle concerning the Oracle Storage Group are ample testimonial to the superiority of Oracle's storage solutions. For example, results in the SPC Benchmark-1 (SPC-1) for best-in-class performance and price/performance; the ZFS Storage Appliance, now with Oracle Database Hybrid Columnar Compression now delivers 3-5 times the storage efficiency over all competitive products; and the availability of 15K RPM 300 Gigabyte (GB) and 600 GB SAS-2 high performance drives for the ZFS Storage 7120 appliance all lend distinction to Oracle Storage solutions for their superior performance.
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The Oracle Database Appliance, as described in its data sheet, offers customers a fully integrated system of software, servers, storage, and networking in one box that delivers high-availability database services for both homegrown and packaged online transaction processing and data warehousing applications. All the software and hardware components are supported by Oracle, which offers customers a unique pay-as-you-grow software licensing plan that covers upscaling from two processor cores to 24 processor cores without the costs and downtime typical of hardware upgrades.
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The third-generation Sun ZFS Storage 7420 Appliance, newly announced by Oracle, delivered twice the performance at less than half the cost per SPC-1 IOPS of NetApp’s FAS 3270A on the SPC-1 benchmark. The Sun ZFS Storage 7420 Appliance turned in a result of 137,066 SPC-1 input/output operations per second (IOPS) at $2.99/ SPC-1 IOPS more than doubles the NetApp 3270A’s 68,035 SPC-1 IOPS at a fraction of its $7.48/ SPC-1 IOPS.
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In her OTN article on creating a robust platform for SAS Grid Computing that uses the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System and the Sun ZFS Storage 7420 Appliance, Maureen Chew concludes that this particular blade/storage appliance combination and the Solaris 10 OS constitute an ideal environment for SAS Grid Computing applications. She writes that 30 compute hours in the SAS Grid Mixed Analytic workload finished in approximately 45 minutes, adding that a mirrored pool across two disk shelves was found capable of delivering more than 3 GB/sec of I/O throughput. Tests using a single PCIe, dual-ported, InfiniBand connection from the Sun ZFS Storage 7420 appliance performed roughly equivalent to a quad 10 GbE link aggregation despite the expectation that the quad 10 GbE might perform 20% to 25% better.
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" ... SSDs use nonvolatile NAND flash memory chips, which are cheaper than DRAM chips but are still as much as 18 times more expensive than 15,000-rpm Fibre Channel or serial SCSI (SAS) drives ..."
SSDs have been around for over 20 years and still run 8-9 times the cost of traditional disk systems. Despite the cost, when the problem is I/O with small blocks the cost is insignificant. So if you are asking "Are Costly SSDs Worth the Money? Enterprise Users Say Absolutely" across the board. The question isn't whether you need one, but where do you get the biggest bang for the buck.
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