The Register has some coverage at the moment of Intel demonstrating a (highly customised/optimised) 7 disk SSD configuration which delivered 1 million IOPS on a desktop configuration. As the article says, regardless of the level of tweaking to get there, this is a fabulous example of the world that is to come with SSD.
Clearly this is still a while off from regular commercial use for the “average” business, but regardless, it’s a fascinating development.
There’s good cause, when you look at these sorts of figures, to see why most storage vendors are getting onto the SSD bandwagon and declaring SSDs to be the “zeroth tier” in storage performance.