Monday, October 6th 2008
Fusion-io Preps PCI-Express Based ioXtreme Solid State Drive
Fusion-io, a company that's famous for its server SSD solutions, unveiled today at the E for All conference and expo its first consumer product, the ioXtreme. ioXtreme represents a PCI-Express based solid state drive with a capacity of 80GB. Fusion-IO promises that the ioXtreme PCI-E SSD card will be 20x faster than traditional hard drives and about 5x times faster than mainstream SSDs. In terms of transfer speeds it will be able to hit a data throughput of 500MB/s to 700MB/s. When released ioXtreme will power the world's fastest supercomputers and workstations.
"Imagine working on complex 3-D graphics, unzipping and manipulating massive files even installing a new application-all at the same time," said David Flynn, CTO of Fusion-io. "Suddenly, with the ioXtreme, tasks that would have brought your system to its knees are no longer limited by the disks spinning loudly inside your box."
The ioXtreme will be priced at under $1000 and be available for home and consumer use in Q1, 2009.
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Fusion-io
"Imagine working on complex 3-D graphics, unzipping and manipulating massive files even installing a new application-all at the same time," said David Flynn, CTO of Fusion-io. "Suddenly, with the ioXtreme, tasks that would have brought your system to its knees are no longer limited by the disks spinning loudly inside your box."
The ioXtreme will be priced at under $1000 and be available for home and consumer use in Q1, 2009.
11 Comments on Fusion-io Preps PCI-Express Based ioXtreme Solid State Drive
Pricing under $1000 for the 80BG drive (~$10-12/GB) is not bad considering it would take 6 MTRON drives in a raid 0 array with a VERY high-end Areca controller to obtain these results (which would cost you about triple that amount).
PCI-e x4 according to those speeds.
Being PCI-E you don't need to worry about more than one driver persumably - ever - when moving from machine to machine - buy now and it might do for your (high speed) storage needs for 5 years or maybe more ...
But: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sata#SATA_6.0_Gbit.2Fs
I think the real difference between this ioXtreme SSD and other SSD’s I’ve looked at is the sustained random read and write performance. Just look at Intel's SATA based SSD. It can achieve bursts of 170 MB/s sequential writes and roughly 3,300 write IOPS. That's incredible performance compared to many hard drives but this ioXtreme appears to be magnitudes beyond even Intel's SSD when doing random reads or writes, not sequential, and whole lot faster than anything else I’ve seen.
If it lives up to the claims, then nothing else can touch it, not even 6.0 Gb/s SATA and I’ll definitely want one.