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.
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If FusionIO wants their product to reach critical mass, they need to do something better with price, otherwise Intel and the likes will pass them up. Do they actually think other companies are sitting idle? Once a big company like Intel makes this type of technology into a mass produced product, then good-bye FusionIO. They better look at history of high-tech storage / memory and consider the economic climate we are in today instead of focusing on immediate large profit margin and think long term. Who the heck handles their long term strategic planning? Do you guys want to make a quick buck for a year or two or do you want to dominate and expand for years. You can still make money and GROW if the price point was better. Since they are from UTAH, I hope they don’t have the same mentality as Novell – look where they are headed to…nowhere.
Do you need me to me to run the numbers of mass production vs niche in the next 1-2 years. Slash the cost by a third and you will even detract those looking at the “slower” current SSD drives. Go for it all…the entire market of new generation of SSD.
[...] FusionIO plans to roll out a new SSD storage card, called ioDrive Duo that comes in the form of a PCI Express card that goes onto your motherboard directly. [...]
[...] PCI-e based SSD card is the next thing to look on for your computer’s permanent storage to replace hard disk drive as SSD card provides tremendous speeds of read and write. OCZ is another company that has launched their new PCI-e SSD card with amazingly huge capacities up to 1TB. [...]