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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. And another question. by AltGrendel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What's the MTBF?

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  2. Re:Oblig. by ady1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Its not the size of the harddrive which is amazing. Its the read/write speed.
    Even if you get a 32GB model, you can install windows on it and use the regular SATA2 HDD for movies/music storage. Think of the booting time.

  3. Re:Still Expensive by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I hope this means that laptops and large capacate media players with extremely long battery life are not too far away.

    I think people expect too much from SSDs. The hard drive is far from the dominant power consumption component in a notebook. The CPU, chipset, GPU and display panel each consume more power than a notebook hard drive does. If you follow a modified version of Amdahl's law (not a law, but whatever), you want to fix the biggest problem first, and that is either the display or CPU. An LED backlit display can save some power, and running a lower power rating CPU saves power too. Compared to that, the savings of swapping HDD for SSD is negligible. On a standard notebook, I think you might add 15 minutes to battery life, which is still far from "extremely long battery life".

    In media players, doubling in capacity every year is a reasonable expectation.