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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