[TUP] Fusion-io's PCI-E ioXtreme Solid State Drive - Overclock.net

linskingdom · 10-06-08

Interesting, PCI-E version of Solid State Drive...

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Fusion-io, a company that's famous for its server SSD solutions, unveiled today at the E for All conference and expo its first consumer product, the ioXtreme. ioXtreme represents a PCI-Express based solid state drive with a capacity of 80GB. Fusion-IO promises that the ioXtreme PCI-E SSD card will be 20x faster than traditional hard drives and about 5x times faster than mainstream SSDs. In terms of transfer speeds it will be able to hit a data throughput of 500MB/s to 700MB/s. When released ioXtreme will power the world's fastest supercomputers and workstations.
“Imagine working on complex 3-D graphics, unzipping and manipulating massive files even installing a new application—all at the same time,” said David Flynn, CTO of Fusion-io. “Suddenly, with the ioXtreme, tasks that would have brought your system to its knees are no longer limited by the disks spinning loudly inside your box.”
The ioXtreme will be priced at under $1000 and be available for home and consumer use in Q1, 2009.

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Also, here is another source.

Ecchi-BANZAII!!! · 10-06-08

Sadly the PCI-e HDD they made was only for Linux. it was awesome but it was more than a year since they made it. I remember making a thread here and on sweclockers but noooooo after 2 month people started to find this.
anyway. this is a repost. I think I read about this new Fusion here on OC. still I'd like the IoDrive to be Windows supported.

Takendown2 · 10-06-08

ooooo thats pretty cool but y PCIe? wouldnt it be more sensible to wait for SATA 3? people that can afford this would have something like tri SLI or QUAD CFX and i doubt there would be room

Blameless · 10-06-08

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Originally Posted by Ecchi-BANZAII!!!

Sadly the PCI-e HDD they made was only for Linux. it was awesome but it was more than a year since they made it. I remember making a thread here and on sweclockers but noooooo after 2 month people started to find this.
anyway. this is a repost. I think I read about this new Fusion here on OC. still I'd like the IoDrive to be Windows supported.

Only thing that was preventing windows from using it is drivers and possibly a firmware update.

The windows versions should be available now actually:

http://www.fusionio.com/PDFs/Fusion%20specsheet_v16.pdf

DuckieHo · 10-06-08

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Originally Posted by Takendown2

ooooo thats pretty cool but y PCIe? wouldnt it be more sensible to wait for SATA 3? people that can afford this would have something like tri SLI or QUAD CFX and i doubt there would be room

PCIe is an chipset-perpherial interconnect... SATA 6GB/s is a storage device-controller interconnect. Besides SATA is limited to 6000Mb/s. x8 PCIe 1.0 runs at 16,000Mb/s. If they go with x16 PCIe 2.0, they have a bandwidth of 64,000Mb/s.

This isn't for home-user. This is for servers and maybe high-end workstations.

Takendown2 · 10-06-08

Oh i c, but do u really need the full bandwith of pcie x8 or even x16? i thought even video cards cant even max out pcie x16 1.1 much less pcie x16 2.0

r34p3rex · 10-06-08

this thing is sex. how many IOPS does it do?

DuckieHo · 10-06-08

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Originally Posted by r34p3rex

this thing is sex. how many IOPS does it do?

It can do over 100,000 IOPS. Yes... a holy crapping whoa amount.

Here's a post about it back in 10/07: http://www.overclock.net/hardware-ne...mb-s-read.html

There's a video of it's performance as well.

Zeag · 10-06-08

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Originally Posted by Takendown2

Oh i c, but do u really need the full bandwith of pcie x8 or even x16? i thought even video cards cant even max out pcie x16 1.1 much less pcie x16 2.0

There's new a sizeable gap between 2 x 16xPCIe performance and 2x 8xPCIe with high end crossfire and SLI setups. That gap is bound to get bigger as the cards make better use of the PCIe2.0 over time.

D.J.S. · 10-06-08

Also as a side note modern Sata controllers usally run on the pci-e bus anyhow , so this
would mearly eliminate a middleman controller chip.

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