September 18th, 2008 by ketyung
The Fusion ioDrive, a high-end solid state drive which is specially designed for the enterprise that could be used as a replacement for many high-end data storage solutions such as SAN, RAID etc.
Since the Fusion ioDrive is SSD-based, it has more advantages than the platter-based hard drives such as super fast access time and throughput that standard hard disk drives can’t meet at all. The ioDrive is unlike normal hard disk drive which it’s a PCI-e card that occupies a PCI-E slot on the mobo of your server or computer.
The little downside of the current version of ioDrive is it needs driver, so you can’t boot on it. But it will become bootable in Q4, when the company plans to release a new firmware, which allows it to appear as a normal drive in the BIOS, so you will be able to use it as boot disk.
The SSD-based ioDrive still costs pretty expensive to be an end-user product ($2,400 for 80GB). But for the enterprise, its price is lower than implementing SAN/RAID solutions that need multiple hard disk drives which have lower performance. Furthermore, it involves less mechanical parts which shall have longer life span compared to platter-based hard drives.
via [ubergizmo]
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