The new Home Storage Array is coming to life (Photos Below). My configuration is an AKiTiO Thunder2 Quad Mini (Thunderbolt 2) with 4 Mushkin Enhanced Reactor MKNSSDRE1TB 2.5" 1TB SATA III Internal Solid State Drives. At a minimum, my VMFS Datastores within this configuration will average around 1300 MB/Sec Reads, 1200 MB/Sec Writes and 150,000 IOPS (4 KB Reads/Writes). This little monster will be conected to my new vSphere 6.0 Lab and CAD-CAM Solution on Mac Pro (http://socal-engineer.com/engineering-blog/2015/4/3/new-vsphere-60-lab-and-cad-cam-solution-on-mac-pro). Performance benchmarking results write-up coming soon.

AKiTiO Thunder2 Quad Mini - $349.99 (Direct Purchase from AKiTiO)
http://www.akitio.com/portable-storage/akitio-thunder2-quad-mini
-Thunderbolt 2 Interface: 20 Gb/sec
-Read Speed: 1375 MB/Sec
-Write Speed: 1232 MB/Sec
-Drives: Four 2.5” drives with SATA 6Gb/s interface slots

Mushkin Enhanced Reactor MKNSSDRE1TB 2.5" 1TB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - $349.99 x 4 = $1,399.96
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226596

-Max Sequential Read: 560MB/s
-Max Sequential Write: 460MB/s
-4KB Random Read: Up to 74,000 IOPS
-4KB Random Write: Up to 76,000 IOPS
-Seek Time: <0.1ms
-MTBF: 1,500,000 hours