In reply to Michelle B..

Michelle,

A lot has changed since this post from two years ago. SAS loves SSD drives that have been designed for lots of writes and deletes; not just write once and read many, many times. There is a paper from SAS Global Forum 2015 http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings15/SAS1500-2015.pdf that has a section on FLASH storage.

In addition, this SAS Usage note 53874 http://support.sas.com/kb/53/874.html lists several papers on FLASH and SSD storage that SAS has tested. These papers include any tuning guidelines required to get optimal IO throughput for SAS.

Thanks for the inquiry