I'm looking at getting a new server and putting in about 8 or 10 500GB Samsung SSDs.
They price is cheaper than buying DELL SAS 7200 RPM drives and the performance would be about 10 times faster. Dell is charging about 5x as much for their SSDs.
I realize Dell won't warranty or support or whatever you using better and cheaper drives than they sell but I'm curious if anyone here has done that yet.
I'll probably end up doing RAID 50 with at least 1 hot spare.