Solid state of the art

Solid state drives now offer an attractive storage alternative for enterprise users – but is the range of options and pace of innovation proving more of a headache than a help to IT specifiers? SOLID-STATE drives – SSDs – have now become readily affordable, but with manufacturers offering several different models each, how do you decide which is right for enterprise needs? And to help inform a purchasing decision, what is going on under the covers that makes them more interesting and/or different for business applications?