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640gb PCIe Solid-State Drive Demonstrated
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.'"
You could do better - buy more RAM, set up a ramdrive and put the swap file on that.
Or, of course, just buy more RAM.
..then why the fuck do we always get these blurbs where people mix up "Gb" and "GB"??
...so tell me, what the fuck's a "gb" gerbil brain? There's no such thing as "gb". /.'s headings like Wikipedia's, the word "PCIe" next to it
THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE I.O.W. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!
IMNSHO IF YOU DON'T KNOW THIS BASIC TIDBIT OF UNIT NOTATION YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS BEING ON SLASHDOT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga
And don't tell me it's a limitation of
has three capital letters in it just fine.