Enabling SSD cache on SoftLayer Bare Metal Servers
The official SoftLayer blog recently did an article on using 1 or 2 SSD drives in a bare metal that use all SATA drives to considerably boost IOPS. It highlights that using just SATA you will not get great speeds, but adding a couple of SSD’s can see improvements from 970 IOPS to 9000 IOPS. Please check this out.
http://blog.softlayer.com/2016/enable-ssd-caching-bare-metal-server-10x-iops-improvements