Posted by ketyung
on Jan/01/2008
at 4:57 am
Still remember the Fusion ioDrive? A piece of PCIe card that was deemed to replace SAN storage for the enterprise use. Now, there is a price tag with this super fast storage card.
A 640GB 80GB flash-based version of this card will cost you for only about $2,400. Which is definitely much cheaper for investing in complete SAN solution and other multi-disk array storage boxes.
The firm says that the ioDrive PCIe card will be available in Q1 this year (2008). The firm claims that the card leverages solid state technology that is far ahead of any other companies in the solid state market today.
The card offers ram-like speed that is over thousand times faster than hard drive, has much lower power consumption as less mechanical parts and gives similar performance to multi-rack disk array.
Specification:
- 700 MB/s read speed
- 600 MB/s write speed
- 87,500 IOPS (8K packets) transaction rate
- Sustain 3.2 GBps bandwidth with only four ioDrives
- 100,000 IOPS (4K packets) with a single ioDrive
- PCI-Express x4 Interface
Note: We’ve made a correction here. According to the rep of FusionIO, it’s the 80GB version (instead of 640GB) of the ioDrive that costs $2,400, and they’ll be rolling out the 640GB version soon.
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January 4th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Thanks for the information. I have been in talks with the guys at FusionIO. Excellent technology! As to pricing, it starts at $2400 and the smallest drive is 80 GB, so it’s about $30/GB (as mentioned in their FAQ and interviews).
February 10th, 2008 at 10:51 am
I’ll be looking forward to hearing physical availability of the card.. I think it is a giant leap on the industry.
April 10th, 2008 at 5:09 am
Next time I have 2400 $ lying around… I’ll be getting one for my desktop. Load times? What are those?
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:18 am
Ad says, “A 640GB flash-based version of this card will cost you for only about $2,400″ But other posts say $30 / GB. That would make the 80GB verion $2400. So which is it??? Both can’t be right.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:11 pm
The first article was the initial pricing which was an estimate that it would cost $30 per GB. And the $2400 was the later announcement…
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January 17th, 2009 at 6:02 am
‘Which is definitely much cheaper for investing in complete SAN solution and other multi-disk array storage boxes.’
Not true after your correction.
April 16th, 2009 at 9:44 am
What’s the point of their so called low price if they’re only 80gb big, this is an obvious case of business suicide out of greed.
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