Fusion-io Announces Super Fast ioDrive2 and ioDrive2 Duo
Fusion-io Announces Super Fast ioDrive2 and ioDrive2 Duo
Posted 10/04/2011 at 12:29pm
| by Paul Lilly
20
Comments
Print
There are fast storage devices, like 7200 RPM mechanical hard drives with 64MB of cache and built on a SATA 6Gbps interface; really fast storage devices, like high-end solid state drives with snappy controllers; and then there are ridiculously fast (and uber expensive) hardware like the new ioDrive2 and ioDrive2 Duo from Fusion-io.
Primarily aimed at the enterprise (though enthusiasts with deep pockets are welcome to join the fun), these new drives boast nearly symmetrical read and write access (up to 1.5GB/s read and 1.3GB/s write speeds for the ioDrive and up to 2.6GB/s read and 2.4GB/s write for the ioDrive Duo), up to 2.4TB capacity (ioDrive Duo), 15µs write latency, over 700,000 read IOPS and 900,000 write IOPS, an intelligent self-healing feature called Adaptive FlashBack for complete chip level fault tolerance, and extended support for all major OSes, including Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris x86, ESXi 5.0, and HP-UX.
Fusion-io will over MLC versions of the ioDrive2 and ioDrive2 Duo in 365GB, 785GB, 1.2TB, and 2.4TB capacities beginning in late November, followed by SLC variants in 400GB, 600GB, and 1.2TB capacities shortly after. Pricing for Fusion's new ioMemory platform starts at $5,950.
Image Credit: Fusion-io
More like this
20
Comments
Comments are closed on this article
aso chudi
January 17, 2012 at 2:40am
Nice information, many thanks to the author. It is incomprehensible to me now, but in general, the usefulness and significance is overwhelming.
aso chudi
January 14, 2012 at 4:38am
Generally I do not learn from posts on blogs, however I wish to say that this write-up very pressured me to check out and I did so! Your writing style has amazed me. Thank you, quite nice article.
neal123
January 06, 2012 at 5:33pm
Great stuff from you, man. Ive read your stuff before and youre just too awesome. I love what youve got here, love what youre saying and the way you say it. You make it entertaining and you still manage to keep it smart. I cant wait to read more from you. This is really a great blog.
bolod
December 26, 2011 at 3:18am
When I first visit this site and try to look what this site talks about I was really amazed with.WOW!fantastic.You could have get new important and interesting topic to be discuss. Really feel great that I visit this site.
bolod
December 25, 2011 at 9:52pm
I became anticipating intended for this type of write-up so I currently have attained various valuable details made by this web site Appreciate your sharing giving this level of detail, There is absolutely no far better strategy to grant details to opportunity seekers than you are on in this way.
EthicSlave
October 07, 2011 at 11:20pm
definitely enterprise only situations But which spec and board? and how many drives which backplanes? all kinds of limitations here namely backplane limitations in the 10-40Gbps areas, would saturate most backplane pipelines with 1 or 2 drives which have multiple pcie slots (up to 16) PICMG needs newer specs namely for PCIe
fuzz_64
October 05, 2011 at 7:20am
http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-RevoDrive-Express-Solid-State/dp/B005F30JBM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317824318&sr=8-1
I'd just get one of these for similar performance and a fraction of the cost.. :)
Coldrage
October 04, 2011 at 4:51pm
Hey, with technology like this, soon we won't even need RAM anymore.
Thoughts?
jorleans
October 04, 2011 at 1:59pm
Hey Nimrod, this is a unit for Enterprise use with over 700,000 IOPS. That's HUGE. At $6K a pop, they're actually pretty cheap if you're buying a bunch of SAS drives to use in your high-activity SAN. $1500 300GB 15K SAS drives give you less than 125 IOPS each.
Coldrage
October 04, 2011 at 1:55pm
Also, for that much money you could run 30 OCZ Vertex 3 120GB's in RAID 0
frizzly
October 04, 2011 at 1:52pm
for $6,000 I would rather have a home movie theater set up in my home and buy one of the older SSD.
Holly Golightly
October 04, 2011 at 1:50pm
Wow! What a design. It is so pretty. I would soooooo get 2 of these beauties on my rig. So beautiful.
Nimrod
October 04, 2011 at 1:32pm
This sounds like a complete rapeoff. If im correct normal SSDs are nearing 700MBs correct? They cost less than 1k.
bautrey
October 04, 2011 at 6:17pm
The highest transfer rates for the highest quality SSD's are 555 MB/s read and 550 MB/s write. So you could RAID 0 5 480GB SSD's to get 2.4 TB at about 2.8 GB/s read and write for about $6000, considering those 480GB SSD's are $1200 each. Considering that the starting value for the iodrive is $6000 for the lowest one, using consumer SSD's would be way more cost effective.
thetechchild
October 04, 2011 at 4:20pm
Normal SSDs don't get close to 700 MB/s, let alone ~2.5 GB/s... (which would be over 3x faster). Plus, it's over 2 TB of storage. I've yet to see a SATA SSD over 1TB.
kiaghi7
October 04, 2011 at 2:45pm
The cost is based upon the performance and capacity combined...
No SATA drive comes anywhere even remotely close to that level of IOPS... The capacity of up to 2.4TB along with such tremendous through-put is simply phenomenal.
Please look into the stats and compare like-to-like...
Coldrage
October 04, 2011 at 1:19pm
I'd rather donate $6000 to charity than spend it on something that only saves a few seconds loading applications and games.
bautrey
October 04, 2011 at 6:10pm
lol. These aren't meant to be used for games and applications. They are ENTERPRIZE
aarcane
October 05, 2011 at 8:36am
read the article "enthusiasts with deep pockets are welcome to join" before you criticize enthusiasts with deep pockets.
Connect with MaximumPC
Featured Content
The gang discusses the GTX 690, Trinity, Ivy Bridge, Amazon, big-box stores, MMOs,...
This month's issue
Feature
Build a PC On Any Budget
Feature
Cloud Services Showdown
How-To
Encrypt Your External Drive
Build It
Upgrade an X58 Rig
Most Commented Articles
Latest Max PC Tweets
- maximumpc: Original RickRoll Video Returns to YouTube After 24-Hour Copyright Hiatus http://t.co/MaH9Sxyy1 day 11 hours ago
- maximumpc: Corsair has decided not to go forward with its $78 million IPO, citing weak equity market conditions http://t.co/A5a4DAzj1 day 11 hours ago
- maximumpc: Want to work at Maximum PC? Our Online Managing Editor, Alex, is moving away, so we need a new one. http://t.co/9Z7JCh0E3 days 8 hours ago
