What are also interesting are solid state drives that come in the size 
and connection specs of IDE drives (not sure if SATA or EIDE). These 
have long been used on blade servers and other devices (I believe the 
small UMPC laptops use them as well). As the price of memory comes down 
the capacity of these increase and become an ideal method of having a 
low heat and power, high reliability fast booting and operating system.

There are still some issues around read / write speed however with RAM 
cache this can be handled.

I think these are the devices that will replace the mechanical hard disk 
in a few years.

Cheers/2

Ed.

Mike O'Connor wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> These look really nice! [From Slashdot link]
>
> "TG Daily reports that the company Fusion io has presented a massively 
> fast, massively large solid-state flash hard drive on a PCIe card 
>
http://www.tgdaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34065>

> at the Demofall 07 conference in San Diego. Fusion is promising 
> sustained data rates of 800Mb/sec for reading and 600Mb/sec for writing. 
> The company plans to start releasing the cards at 80 GB and will scale 
> to 320 and 640 GB. '[Fusion io's CTO David Flynn] set the benchmark for 
> the worst case scenario by using small 4K blocks and then streaming 
> eight simultaneous 1 GB reads and writes. In that test, the ioDrive 
> clocked in at 100,000 operations per second. "That would have just 
> thrashed a regular hard drive," said Flynn. The company plans on 
> releasing the first cards in December 2007 and will follow up with 
> higher capacity versions later.'"
>
> Pictures of PCI-e card at;
>
>
http://www.tgdaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=18&Itemid=41&slideshow=20070926>
>
> comment on picture:
> The card will initially have 80 GB of NAND flash and will scale up to 
> 1.2 TB by the end of next year.!
>
> Be nice to know what the price-bracket will be!
> I'm getting sick of what my magnetic drives have been doing lately! :'(
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
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