Comments on: Enterprise storage breakthrough: ioDrive, just a piece of PCI card to replace your SAN! http://www.techchee.com/2007/09/26/enterprise-storage-breakthrough-iodrive-just-a-piece-of-pci-card-to-replace-your-san/ Gadget vista, shop & buy online, gadget online store, corporate gift, software, web 2.0 and tech news Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:25:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: GullLars http://www.techchee.com/2007/09/26/enterprise-storage-breakthrough-iodrive-just-a-piece-of-pci-card-to-replace-your-san/#comment-178352 GullLars Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:15:16 +0000 http://www.techchee.com/2007/09/26/enterprise-storage-breakthrough-iodrive-just-a-piece-of-pci-card-to-replace-your-san/#comment-178352 Max: These cards are the fastest none-volatile storage there is, but ram is still faster in both response time and throughput. PC-6400 has 6 GB/s @ 10-20 ns responsetime, this card has 600-800 MB/s @ 50 µs (100 000 IOPS), High quality SSDs have 100-200 MB/s @ 100 µs (10-20000 IOPS), 15k RPM drives have about 160-180 MB/s @ 5 ms (250-300 IOPS) And NEW normal harddrives have 100 MB/s @ 13-14 ms (100-150 IOPS) These cards will make for perfect boot drives when the ioXtreme for us consumers get lauched Q1 09'. It's said to cost below $1000 for 80 GB (probebly because of less warranty than the server version). Max:
These cards are the fastest none-volatile storage there is, but ram is still faster in both response time and throughput.
PC-6400 has 6 GB/s @ 10-20 ns responsetime,
this card has 600-800 MB/s @ 50 µs (100 000 IOPS),
High quality SSDs have 100-200 MB/s @ 100 µs (10-20000 IOPS),
15k RPM drives have about 160-180 MB/s @ 5 ms (250-300 IOPS)
And NEW normal harddrives have 100 MB/s @ 13-14 ms (100-150 IOPS)

These cards will make for perfect boot drives when the ioXtreme for us consumers get lauched Q1 09′. It’s said to cost below $1000 for 80 GB (probebly because of less warranty than the server version).

]]> By: Max http://www.techchee.com/2007/09/26/enterprise-storage-breakthrough-iodrive-just-a-piece-of-pci-card-to-replace-your-san/#comment-130668 Max Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:28:37 +0000 http://www.techchee.com/2007/09/26/enterprise-storage-breakthrough-iodrive-just-a-piece-of-pci-card-to-replace-your-san/#comment-130668 Motherboards will have to be provided with more pci e slots. If storage devices could be that fast it might not be necessary to have ddr memory anymore thus simplifying pc architecture design. I would also like to see notebooks' PCMCIA slots to be upgraded to PCI-e specification so we would could use this type of storage as a backup or extra storage device. Hope to see this technolgy in the mainstream soon. Motherboards will have to be provided with more pci e slots. If storage devices could be that fast it might not be necessary to have ddr memory
anymore thus simplifying pc architecture design. I would also like to see notebooks’ PCMCIA slots to be upgraded to PCI-e specification so we would could use this type of storage as a backup or extra storage device. Hope to see this technolgy in the mainstream soon.

]]> By: Fusionio’s ioDrive starts at $2,400, cheaper than most SAN boxes!- by Gadget, shop online blog of TechChee.com http://www.techchee.com/2007/09/26/enterprise-storage-breakthrough-iodrive-just-a-piece-of-pci-card-to-replace-your-san/#comment-33386 Fusionio’s ioDrive starts at $2,400, cheaper than most SAN boxes!- by Gadget, shop online blog of TechChee.com Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:57:41 +0000 http://www.techchee.com/2007/09/26/enterprise-storage-breakthrough-iodrive-just-a-piece-of-pci-card-to-replace-your-san/#comment-33386 [...] remember the Fusion ioDrive? A piece of PCIe card that was deemed to replace SAN storage for the enterprise use. Now, there is [...] [...] remember the Fusion ioDrive? A piece of PCIe card that was deemed to replace SAN storage for the enterprise use. Now, there is [...]

]]> By: Chongkan http://www.techchee.com/2007/09/26/enterprise-storage-breakthrough-iodrive-just-a-piece-of-pci-card-to-replace-your-san/#comment-12585 Chongkan Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:21:08 +0000 http://www.techchee.com/2007/09/26/enterprise-storage-breakthrough-iodrive-just-a-piece-of-pci-card-to-replace-your-san/#comment-12585 "It doesn’t need any RAID controller and has the benefit of no moving parts that would consume less power.." My hypothesis is: Now the RAID will be on the System Board and instead of a HDD RAID controller it will be a PCI-IOBOARD controller… Otherwise how are you going to provide protection against this board failure? You must have at least 2 of this boards and an integrated “PCI-RAID” controller onboard to make this hardware fault tolerant… “PCI-RAID 1”… “It doesn’t need any RAID controller and has the benefit of no moving parts that would consume less power..”

My hypothesis is:

Now the RAID will be on the System Board and instead of a HDD RAID controller it will be a PCI-IOBOARD controller… Otherwise how are you going to provide protection against this board failure?

You must have at least 2 of this boards and an integrated “PCI-RAID” controller onboard to make this hardware fault tolerant… “PCI-RAID 1”…

]]> By: Dave http://www.techchee.com/2007/09/26/enterprise-storage-breakthrough-iodrive-just-a-piece-of-pci-card-to-replace-your-san/#comment-12146 Dave Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:57:18 +0000 http://www.techchee.com/2007/09/26/enterprise-storage-breakthrough-iodrive-just-a-piece-of-pci-card-to-replace-your-san/#comment-12146 Full Circle... My first PC had a Hard Card - a 20 mb hard drive that plugged into the ISA expansion bus. Good times. Full Circle…

My first PC had a Hard Card - a 20 mb hard drive that plugged into the ISA expansion bus. Good times.

]]> By: Tom http://www.techchee.com/2007/09/26/enterprise-storage-breakthrough-iodrive-just-a-piece-of-pci-card-to-replace-your-san/#comment-11753 Tom Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:07:35 +0000 http://www.techchee.com/2007/09/26/enterprise-storage-breakthrough-iodrive-just-a-piece-of-pci-card-to-replace-your-san/#comment-11753 I don't think this is for the average person. Its for companies who need very fast access to memory or other specific uses. And besides, when the prices go down (which they will), this could replace traditional hard drives or maybe act as a secondary RAM or other memory device. I don’t think this is for the average person. Its for companies who need very fast access to memory or other specific uses. And besides, when the prices go down (which they will), this could replace traditional hard drives or maybe act as a secondary RAM or other memory device.

]]> By: PoorBastard http://www.techchee.com/2007/09/26/enterprise-storage-breakthrough-iodrive-just-a-piece-of-pci-card-to-replace-your-san/#comment-11632 PoorBastard Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:16:28 +0000 http://www.techchee.com/2007/09/26/enterprise-storage-breakthrough-iodrive-just-a-piece-of-pci-card-to-replace-your-san/#comment-11632 Slick, but whose going to pay $30 a gig? Slick, but whose going to pay $30 a gig?

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