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My holdout for an SSD RAID died today after a sweet deal on 2 Velociraptors came across my deal feeds. With SSD prices staying well above $1/GB almost 2 years in, I don't see them falling to affordability anytime soon. Add to that my power suck every time I turn on my 4 drive RAID array and you can see how spending $300 for 2 300GB VelociRaptors makes sense. The power savings alone should have the upgrade paying for itself in 23.6 years! Having completed reality warp, it was time to benchmark the upgrade and eliminate my buyer's remorse. Sustained read almost doubled from 126.1 MB/s to 236.9 MB/s with burst rate now a crazy 2,467 MB/s. I credit the 2005 era SATA 2.0 3Gb/s interface upgrade from my previous 2001 era SATA 1.0 1.5Gb/s. This means in 2015 I should finally be in position to afford a SATA 3.0 6Gb/s solid state RAID at which point I'll finally be able to extract all the porn on the internet in less than an hour.