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Super fast SSD drive hits the shops
THE OUTFIT WHICH HIRED twinkle-toed Apple old boy Steve Wozniak as its chief boffin, Fusion-io, has released a superfast SSD drive.
The ioDrive Duo is being targeted for business applications, such as database servers and its capacities range from 160 gigabytes to 640 gigabytes. And by the second half of this year, this will increase to 1.28 terabytes.
Performance for multiple ioDrive Duos scales linearly, which means that any enterprise can get to six gigabytes per second of read bandwidth and over 500,000 read IOPS by using just four ioDrive Duos.
David Flynn, CTO of Fusion-io said that many database and system administrators are finding that SANs are too expensive and don't meet performance, protection and capacity expectations.
However ioDrive Duo offers the enterprise the advantages of software-centric storage without application-specific programming, he claimed. µ
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ZZZzzz.... wake me up if/when they are a reasonable price.
while they are charging extortionate prices for small capacities i'm not in the slightest bit interested. even if it'll stand on one leg whistling dixie while making me a cup of tea...
*snores*
Here's bit of uptick on starting SSD Standards: Yin-Tsan plans to complete development of SATA SSD controllers with a 200MB/s data transfer rate within three months(from last Wed). Its job order from Faraday in USA. So 200 Mb/s that works right is start, then more, more & more. well, its long bunch of Moores here, yet even this incredible High Speed apple will smoothly fit in, once controllers work, troubles being now SSD cann't handle cpu power saving mode & wears out in complex flurry of ?meaningless activiety.Also Todays SSD Needs MUCH MUCH Larger cpu bandwidth for such high speed delivery. So think 2 Up or more for cpu. TS Drashek
if you look @ the photos on the website you'll see HP on some of them
@Capt'nPuffPuff
Re: Chase That WhiteWhale....Spurts Black Blood & Rolls Dead Out....
Don't you have a Cylon Basestar you're supposed to be piloting?
Yeah, we have a san in the company here and despite it costing $10K, it's performance is horrible. It just can't deliver the speed needed for the 47 virtual machines attached to it. The problem is the network. Nothing less than a 10Gbit lan would provide adequate bandwidth. Local storage is the way to go unless absolutely inadequate in terms of size. You will not get a lot of performance from a SAN without spending a fortune.
Heres Just bit Moore:Fusion-io today announced its newest storage solution: the ioDrive Duo. The Duo picks up where its older brother left off, bringing unprecedented read and write speed with it. According to Fusion-io, the ioDrive Duo can read and write at 1.5 GB/sec. and 1.4 GB/sec., giving it over twice the performance of its predecessor. The Duo can also reach 186,000 read IOPS and 167,000 write IOPS. Its 160 Gb,However- theres bigger, Cost? Well, Whopping $3,000.00 EACH. Great Whites Ani't Cheap, Ya Know. STeWie drashek
Imagine a Mac Pro 8 Xeon cores with 3 of this cards in RAID 5. Benchmarks? pricing?
Told Ya, Told Ya....Except ONE Prob, How Machine going to Break 2 ghz/s Barrier W/CODED Data? Obviously Its OLD Standard, Yet at 6 Ghz/s, Keep Your Shoes On, Great White Exists On ALL Sides of Earth (Even DarkSide). Smoothness Takes NEW Meaning & Told Ya, Told Ya.AhSo, It Is Falsly Reported That Sata is HOT Swapable, After 100 Swaps, Defrag Show'd Small areas of Dead HDD Sata Platter, Plus One Unit went Chunkie. So Do Turn Off Machine When Changing Its Connectors, Or Experience Moderate Damage to Unit. drashek
We have the original ioDrive running in all our database servers now. Aside from a couple of early driver hiccups, we couldn't be happier. The performance is astounding.