On the call, we talked briefly about trying to get some access to high 
speed SSD's for btrfs testing. I did not see online prices for STEC 
which is one high end part we mentioned, but I did see that Rocketdisk 
has 2.5 & 3.5 inch S-ATA drives that claim 19,000 IOPS.

The affordable ones (say $500) are quite small, but it would be fun to 
qualify with...

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