The need for speed! Enterprises will definitely need super high speeds of data transfer in order to achieve super efficiency within the organizations. Fusion-IO has once again proven its SSD devices are the best in terms of speed.
The Fusion-IO’s newly announced ioDrive Octal SSD drive is capable of sustaining over one terabyte per second (1TB/sec) of aggregated bandwidth with less than 50 microseconds of access latencies.
The super fast ioDrive SSD has been adopted to deploy custom installations based on its ioMemory technology by two undisclosed government organizations. Based on the existing technologies, to achieve 1TB/s sustained bandwidth, you’ll need massive hardware including 55,440 disk drives, 396 SAN controllers, 792 I/O servers and 132 racks of equipment.
But with the Fusion-IO’s technology, you can simply achieve it with 220 ioDrive Octal cards, housed in Infiniband-attached I/O servers running the Lustre parallel file system. And this needs only 6 racks to hold them, saves lots of space compared to the massive 132 racks.
The ioDrive Octal drive comes in the form of PCI-e card, which clams eight ioMemory modules equivalent in terms of capacity and performance of putting 8 ioDrives into a single card.
The ioDrive Octal card fits into any PCI Express x16 Gen2 double-wide slot on the mobo, same as those used for high-performance graphics card and it manages to fully utilize the full performance of the slot. Other goodies include 800,000 IOPS (4k packet size), 6 GB/s bandwidth, and 5 TB maximum capacity. Unfortunately, no word on pricing yet.
via pclaunches
on Wed, Nov 25th, 09
at 10:19 am
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