Friday, June 5th 2009
Fatal1ty and Fusion-io Join to Launch the ioXtreme PCI-E Solid-State Drive
Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel, the world's best known PC gamer, and Fusion-io join up at the Fatal1ty E3 booth to launch the ioXtreme, a solid state storage device for high-performance PCs and workstations using 64 bit operating systems. The ioXtreme eliminates application latency, delivering the kind of storage performance once limited to the world's fastest supercomputers.
Drawing from Fusion-io's industry-leading solid-state technologies, the ioXtreme is a PCI Express card that sits on the system bus filling the performance gap between RAM and disk drives. It adds 80 GB of non-volatile capacity, exponentially accelerating input and output, including file access, and improving application performance dramatically.
"The ioXtreme supercharges high-end PCs and workstations. I predict this technology will fundamentally change the way software is designed, allowing developers to create a new class of applications that seamlessly handle massive amounts of data," Fatal1ty said. "Imagine playing the most intense game, working on complex 3-D graphics, manipulating massive files, ripping multiple DVDs and installing a new application -- all simultaneously. The technology is crazy and works at the speed I need."
"Johnathan's experience with high-end computing has given him a unique insight into the disruption our core technology brings to all levels of computing," said Steve Wozniak, chief scientist of Fusion-io. "We look forward to working with an incredible young talent like him. The ioXtreme is a good example of how combining the wisdom of veterans, such as myself, with next generation expertise such as Johnathan's, will take Fusion-io's performance revolution into the future."
Scheduled for release in July at a list price of $895, the ioXteme has been architected for prosumers and extreme PC users and is specifically designed for easy upgrades. Through future software releases, the ioXtreme will be able do far more than application acceleration, including features like boot and transparent data migration. Fusion-io and Fatal1ty will be demonstrating the ioXtreme during E3 in booth #2922 South Hall. For more information about Fusion-io and the ioXtreme visit the ioXtreme site.
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Fusion-io
Drawing from Fusion-io's industry-leading solid-state technologies, the ioXtreme is a PCI Express card that sits on the system bus filling the performance gap between RAM and disk drives. It adds 80 GB of non-volatile capacity, exponentially accelerating input and output, including file access, and improving application performance dramatically.
"Johnathan's experience with high-end computing has given him a unique insight into the disruption our core technology brings to all levels of computing," said Steve Wozniak, chief scientist of Fusion-io. "We look forward to working with an incredible young talent like him. The ioXtreme is a good example of how combining the wisdom of veterans, such as myself, with next generation expertise such as Johnathan's, will take Fusion-io's performance revolution into the future."
Scheduled for release in July at a list price of $895, the ioXteme has been architected for prosumers and extreme PC users and is specifically designed for easy upgrades. Through future software releases, the ioXtreme will be able do far more than application acceleration, including features like boot and transparent data migration. Fusion-io and Fatal1ty will be demonstrating the ioXtreme during E3 in booth #2922 South Hall. For more information about Fusion-io and the ioXtreme visit the ioXtreme site.
71 Comments on Fatal1ty and Fusion-io Join to Launch the ioXtreme PCI-E Solid-State Drive
he is obviously doing something right besides just playing games for a living
To get some perspective on the company itself FusionIO is the top SSD manufacturer in the enterprise sector. Their technology crushes everyone else out there in that market with their ioDrive.
Having them move into the performance consumer market is a good and bad thing. Personally I don't think most people need it because if the ioxtreme performs anywhere as well as the ioDrive does for the price being offered I don't see anyone making proper use of the technology unless they run a small scale server and I don't mean hosting a single 8v8 session on Counter Strike.
But some of you guys like to put your hard drives in raid configuration. If you use a lot of drives in a raid 0 setup (such that you are spending even $600 on raid configurations including the raid card) then the ioXtreme is a better alternative.
the last tournament he won was in 2006. see his "current ranking"so he's hardly the best gamer. he's the 6th best according to those guys.
We know who FusionIO is, that's why I believe some here are concerned about them being tied to tactics such as Fatality branding, which may or may not have increased the price of this product.I don't understand your reasoning. To me, the performance consumer market is the market that needs, or at least will benefit from this technology. MHD's have long since fallen behind cpu's and memory in terms of performance. In fact, I've been waiting since 1999 for this level of performance to come within reach of the consumer.Why? Even with a dedicated controller at say, $450, I still have another $445 to spend on SSD's. I get features such as being able to boot off it *now*, not when FusionIO decides to release the update.
With $600: ICH10R with six $100 SSD's :) I can boot off it, have more space, and have more than an acceptable level of performance (ICH10R can move about 600MB/s). Latency will be slightly higher, but I'm spending $295 less.
Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of direct PCIe based storage and will be moving towards it as soon as they release something that I feel is worth it. And I'm not trying to hate on you, just moving this thread away from some guy's gaming career and towards the product itself :)
To put it more specifically. Let's look at the enthusiast who uses their machine primarily to play media only. Why does he suddenly need 500MB/s bandwidth and 250MB/s Burst reading when something cheaper like a Falcon will do the job well enough.
An enthusiast of this type should spend his money so that way he has money in reserve for better future upgrades.Well we agree essentially I was just being sarcastic by pointing out if you are already raiding a bunch of platter drives to try and get better speed then you are wasting space, money and data integrity(especially in a Raid 0 setup) with an almost obsolete technology.
SSDs utilizing controllers of the Indilix, Samsung, Intel and now FusionIO variety make most reasons for the enthusiast to use HDs in raid pointless. Unless you are running a large enough filesharing/stream service server or have so little need for speed you only raid as perk and not as a mission then just move on to SSDs any SSD that doesn't use that shitty Jmicron controller (but don't write Jmicron off yet because they are trying to redeem themselves in their third attempt)Personally while I don't need it I find the ioXtreme compelling enough to consider it as part of my future build for a couple of reasons.
Sata III was just standardized recently so the chances of a motherboard I'll like supporting that new standard won't exist once I finally need to make my PC purchase. Since I'm trying to make a PC where many of the parts hold out well for 4-5 years, PCIe and SAS are the only alternatives after Sata II becomes saturated in the near future and I'm not as interested in getting a board that has SAS in it.
It really looks like bargain considering the company that is making it, how much it costs compared to the Intel X-25e, it uses SLC so it is guarantied to last a lot longer than MLC SSDs and so on. All I need to see are some appropriate benchmarks for the programming work I would be doing on this.
Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel lol wow he can play video games he's super special. I'd take him on and if i win do i get endorsements and lots of money too.....