Having researched Solid State Storage for my business extensively over the last 15 months (we even purchased a Fusion-IO 80GB ioDrive card), I would recommend that you adopt a different solution.

An array of SSDs (Intel X25-E or X25-M) connected to a good write cached disk controller.

Unless your SAN solution will have *multiple* 40Gb/s Infiniband connection there is no way that you could generate enough network traffic to exercise a PCIe based flash storage solution (RAMSAN, Fusion IO, OCZ or SuperTalent).

For $2,044 you can build a 480GB SSD RAID 5 array (4 x Intel X25-M + 3ware 9650 controller w/BBM) which has some fault-tolerance (very few of the PCIe storage solutions offer any hardware fault tolerance.


Sean

P.S. It would be interesting to see what the overhead of the Open-E software RAID would be, cause a SSD storage solution using 2 separate controllers with 4 SSDs in a RAID 10/50 would be perhaps the ideal setup.