Fusion IO SSD: 500-700 MB/s

[udaman]

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39592/135/

the fastest SSDs you can buy today are limited by the bandwidth of SATA II (300 MB/s) and typically achieve read speeds of up to 200 – 250 MB/s on the high end – which would include Intel’s recently announced 80 GB SSDs that sell for $595.

If it is performance you are looking for and if you have a few extra dollars to spend, you may want to wait for Fusion IO’s 80 GB ioXtreme card, which is scheduled to become available in Q1 of next year for “less than $1000”. Fusion IO CTO David Flynn told TG Daily that the PCI Express card will be able to hit a data throughput of 500 MB/s to 700 MB/s. Latency is increased by a factor of between 10-100, which in combination with the bandwidth provides about 50,000 IO’s per second

Kind of have a feeling, SATA 6GB/s standard finalized and should be appearing next year on most MB's, will lead to NAND SSD's that approach that thoroughput. at similar price level, perhaps greater capacity.

Not many people need that speed for that price, better would be larger capacity SSD's, 512GB or more at that price level.

It uses PCI Express, but it's not NAND SSD, I would guess RAM...no details in the story, one way or another

 

[jtr1962]

It is flash memory-see this article.

 

[Stereodude]

I would hope latency was decreased, not increased, but what do I know.

 

[udaman]

ioDrive Duo

And now we have RAID supposedly scaling linearly to 6GBs

!Paypal sent for 4 of these

Orig, ioDrive only set you back $14k.

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=17591