Wednesday, October 10th 2007
Fusion-io Demonstrates $19,000 640GB SSD PCI-e Device
Fusion-io has presented a massively fast and big solid-state flash hard drive (SSD) on a PCI-Express x4 card at the Demofall 07 conference in San Diego. Fusion is promising sustained data rates of 800Mb/sec for reading and 600Mb/sec for writing. The company plans to start releasing the cards at 80GB and will scale to 320 and 640GB. Supported operating systems include Linux Red Hat AS4.0, Windows Vista and Windows XP. All this performance comes with a certain price, the 640GB ioDrive will cost $19,000 USD when releasein in Q1 2008.
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Fusion-io
41 Comments on Fusion-io Demonstrates $19,000 640GB SSD PCI-e Device
forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=26630&highlight=HDTach
300Mbps is burst rate, no single drive can sustain that speed. You have been fooled by marketing.;)
With mechanical drives and RAID you can tune for one thing usually at the expense of another. Number of drives, stripe size, RAID level, the drive itself (cache, rpm, etc), and the sizes of the files, the controller being used, and so on, all play a part in performance.
My point being... you could build an array with mechanical disks for sequential speed meeting or even exceeding the Fusion-io, but only in that situation.
Please look at the online video, the card can process over 100,000 request per second, this is for use in replacing 1000's of hard drives to feed one server in high volume request websites or companies file servers. To lazy to find the link. So work at it a little, lmao
The average maxium hard drive I/O request is about 100 per hard drive, designed to over come the hard drive bottle neck. not for morons at home.
This will descrease SAN's and etc or other array's of disks to feed a single server.
So the m@r@n that did not understand high I/O output, rethink your use of this device.
And look at fusion-io website, please flame me!!!!! lmao
If you needed to do it in order to properly form an arguement you are a sad individual.
Nice forum name btw :D
As for "high I/O output", awesome literary redundancy there. Input Output Output ftw!
This is not for home user, and was not intended for that use, everyone degraded, not that I really care, I actually spent the time to understand the product, did you?
Its just a hard drive using a different medium.
To say that everyone degraded the product is just a good way of saying that you didnt read what people posted, since not everyone said the product was bad, and several people in fact did point out the good points of the device over existing technology.
Just because its not intended for home users doesnt mean it wont be used by them. Look at SCSI drives for example. And Fusionio's CTO even stated “If you were crazy enough, you could use this in a high end game machine.”
SSDeurope.com
and
www.ssdisk.eu
The ioDrive wasn't too expensive .. eur 2900 for 119.000 IOPS, but wanted to check if prices are alright or you know another company who sells them?
IBM and HP I think have them too, but they tend to be expensive...
Thanks
Sergey...