One of the mottos that has served me well over the years is "Don't code a solution to an infrastructure problem when an infrastructure solution exists".

To cope with failover, there...

This is the reply I received from my contact at Fusion IO

"The sector size can be changed between 512(default) and 4k (4096) (not 8k). I think this is only supported...

I've sent an email to my contact at Fusion IO - hopefully we'll get some definitive answers on sector size in relation to their cards

Firstly, as an aside, you don't have to worry about the offset with Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 onwards - basic disks on these versions default to a 1MB...

I was talking about the cluster size for formatting. However, as I understand it, currently most drives physical cluster size are 512 bytes with some new drives at 4096 supported...

Look at the price of a regular SAN with regular disks. It still can't compete on price! I did a price/performance comparison of a single MSA70 (25 disks) to an...

A solid state SAN won't come close - maximum bandwidth per slot is 4Gbps (500MB/s). Plus you have the added latency from the fabric switches, etc. But the real SAN-SSD...

I'm surprised you didn't set the sector size to 8KB. That's the page size for SQL Server and would have been a better choice than 4KB.

On my production servers, I...