The power of 1000 hard drives in the palm of your hand
Monday, October 8, 2007 by PPV
A company called Fushion io has developed a super fast solid-state flash hard drive. The product under the ioDrive name, is actually a PCIe card and will start at 80 GB and will scale to 320 and 640 GB next year. By the end of 2008, Fusion io also hopes to roll out a 1.2 TB card.
The card as reported here, has 160 parallel pipelines that can read data at 800 megabytes per second and write at 600 MB/sec. When tested on a benchmark set for the worst case scenario by using small 4K blocks and then streaming eight simultaneous 1 GB reads and writes, the ioDrive clocked in at 100,000 operations per second, thrashing the performance of a regular hard drive.
The card as reported here, has 160 parallel pipelines that can read data at 800 megabytes per second and write at 600 MB/sec. When tested on a benchmark set for the worst case scenario by using small 4K blocks and then streaming eight simultaneous 1 GB reads and writes, the ioDrive clocked in at 100,000 operations per second, thrashing the performance of a regular hard drive.
