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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. 1x10^6 by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 0, Redundant

    640 GB ought to be enough for anybody.

    1. Re:1x10^6 by FinchWorld · · Score: 0, Redundant
      640 GB ought to be enough for anybody.

      Please, my po.. er... some peoples porn collections are bigger than that!

      --
      "I may be full of crap about this game, and I may be wrong, and that's fine." -Jack Thompson
  2. Lifespan? by rossdee · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I thought Flash memory had a limited (write cycle) lifespan. If they have solved that problem it would be great.
    When are they coming out with a laptop version?

  3. Re:Uhh, Price? by ady1 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    29$ a GB and you are modded informative? Here is a report reflecting the current Nand Flash prices. Shows that its not far off in future that these things will be available for desktops on a reasonable and competitive price.

  4. very cool, by Nex6 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    this is very cool. has harddrives get faster, and larger. and CPUs get better...