Ed Durrant wrote:
> 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
>>
>>     
Hi Ed,

Yes they're definitely the next-big-thing in storage - just noted that 
the summary above is incorrectly using Mb/sec should read MegaBytes/sec 
- yes 800MB/sec! [160 lines at 5MB/sec each] - these are limited to 
~100,000 writes per sector.

Regards,
Mike


 
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