# Are there any recommendations on SSDs?

**URL:** <https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/are-there-any-recommendations-on-ssds/229>\
**Category:** Configuration\
**Created:** [August 16, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/are-there-any-recommendations-on-ssds/229 "2014-08-16T00:35:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![sukantag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@sukantag](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/sukantag)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/are-there-any-recommendations-on-ssds/229/1 "2014-08-16T00:35:06Z")

</div>

Yes. Aerospike has several recommendations on models of SSDs. You can see the list at:

> **[ACT for SSDs](https://aerospike.com/act-for-ssds/)**
>
> Aerospike Certification Tool (ACT) The open source Aerospike Certification Tool (ACT) for Solid State Drive (SSD) benchmarks can help you run latency tests under large write loads and increasing throughput until the point of failure. The...

This list is updated regularly as we find more SSDs to test.

Also:

- SSDs are priced in price/byte, with models right now between $1 and $2/GB. Having more, smaller machines (similar to “short stroke” HDD) creates maximum throughput at the same price. This might change the chassis you choose.
- Avoid RAID cards. We have had mixed experiences with different RAID cards. Some help, some hurt, and some help only for different SSDs. We generally strongly recommend direct attach SATA.