Fusion-io ioDrive 640GB Flash Card Storage Hit Market At Q1 2008
27Dec2007 Filed under: Storage/Memory Author: John C
Fusion-io, a new player in storage solution provider from Utah, has introduced a better alternative storage, the Fusion-io ioDrive. The ioDrive is based on a revolutionary silicon-based storage architecture known as ioMemory, improves storage performance by a “thousand fold” while simultaneously providing sustained, random access rates “hundreds of times faster” than the industry’s fastest storage devices. The card is a PCIe storage card which can be slotted into motherboards with a free PCIe slot. The memory card’s specifications are very impressive: 800MB/sec read speed, 600MB/sec write speed, and 100,000 IOPS (input/output per second) per PCIe x4 card.
The card also provides high service life of eight years compared to the five year service life of mechanical hard drives. And finally when ioDrive’s ioMemory start to fatigue, the result is a reduction in available free space rather than data loss or sudden failure.
The ioDrives will be available from Q1 2008 in 80GB, 160GB, 320GB and 640GB capacities, with the 640GB is set at only about $2400.
Lindley
February 25th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
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.