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640gb PCIe Solid-State Drive Demonstrated

Posted by Zonk on from the super-fast-super-small dept.

Lisandro writes "TG Daily reports that the company Fusion io has presented a massively fast, massively large solid-state flash hard drive on a PCIe 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 80 GB and will scale to 320 and 640 GB. '[Fusion io's CTO David Flynn] set the benchmark for the worst case scenario by using small 4K blocks and then streaming eight simultaneous 1 GB reads and writes. In that test, the ioDrive clocked in at 100,000 operations per second. "That would have just thrashed a regular hard drive," said Flynn. The company plans on releasing the first cards in December 2007 and will follow up with higher capacity versions later.'"

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  1. Oblig. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    640gb ought to be enough for anybody.

    1. Re:Oblig. by GodfatherofSoul · · Score: 2, Funny

      Maybe for your pr0n collection ;)

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    2. Re:Oblig. by darkpixel2k · · Score: 3, Funny

      So while solid state will fragment, it doesn't matter for performance or reliability.

      Yes, but it *needs* to be defragged because I *hate* seeing red in my disk analysis...

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  2. Re:Uhh, Price? by thegnu · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think it's safe to assume you won't be buying one soon.

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    (drool!)

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  4. Re:Flash Memory == Vanished Data by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    should its battery fall out

    The fuck?

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    Oh, carry on.

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