640GB flash card blows hard drives away
Posted by Jason on
October 4, 2007
Utah-based start-up company Fusion-io has unveiled a blisteringly fast, 640GB flash-based PCIe storage card it says can out perform hard drives by a factor of one thousand.
The initial model is designed to slot into a data centre chassis, but it could also be used inside a workstation or suitable PC.
Called the ioDrive, the card can read data at 800 megabytes per second and write at 600 megabytes a second. Initially it will be available in 80, 320 and 640GB versions, however the company has plans to ship a 1.2 terabyte version a little further down the track.
The card’s impressive performance, currently sitting at 100,000 IOPS (input / output per second) comes from a proprietary technology called ioMemory. Read More »
