Fusionio has just released new solid state drive
ioDrive Duo, based and PCI Express x8 and PCI Express 2.0 x4 standards. I covered some interesting SSD-s in the past such as first ioDrive, Micron SSD and A-DATA XPG but what you see here is as fast as all three SSD-s together. You heard it correct. You may think I am talking nonsense but I invite you to take a look at its official specs which are astonishing.
IoDrive Duo comes in 4 different sizes,160GB, 320GB, 640GB and 1.28TB, and will be available somewhere around April this year.Price remains hidden but be prepared to trade your new car for 1.28 TB version.
The price! You will have to look deep into your pocket for even the smallest of all capacities as it will be priced around $2400.
Features:
• Sustained read bandwidth: 1500 MB/sec (32k packet size)
• Sustained write bandwidth: 1400 MB/sec (32k packet size)
• Read IOPS: 186,000 (4k packet size)
• Write IOPS: 167,000 (4k packet size)
IoDrive Duo:The Fastest Solid State Drive Ever: Price
6 Comments:
Line it up against a TGV n see which is faster!!
Btw, what is its pricing?
@Harshal
The last data on price I know of is from March 2009. Io Drive Duo 80GB costs $3000. The price is tremendously high but so is performance. It is only for rare lucky people to actually lay hand on this one.
pcterritory
Slightly off topic but, which one would u recommend :
A normal hard drive which gives u a lot of value for money plus tonnes of GB
OR
A SSD which gives u one forth the storage at twice the price?
Agreed SSD has great performance to its punch but I dont see many buyers as long as their prices go down a long way...
@Harshal
What particular SSD are we talking about? 80% of SSD-s in the market are not worth buying, not because of their high price as you may get them quite cheaply these days, but because they perform below what their manufacturers claim. Not to mention the notorious random write performance of small data such as saving notepad document or chating via messenger which was the biggest trouble SSD-s has had.
If you are in great dilema than I suggest you to buy one fast solid state drive (30,32,60 or 64GB at most) for your operating system and programs plus additional cheap hard drive for your movies and pictures! This sounds a good combination when you can't decide what to do.
I hope you can afford both drives. Just make sure when/if you buy new solid-state drive to read some benchmarks form anandtech.com or tomshardware.com which will provide you with great detail in SSD market. Additionaly if you are interested in hard drive bencharks and performance I suggest you to visit storegereviews.com, website dedicated to analyzing storage solutions(hard drives).
Notice: if you do not have place for two storage units (hdd+ssd), you can always opt for external hard drive on notebook or desktop computer. They are great solution for space-short computers.
pcterritory
Thanks!! Great idea!
Wonder why I never thought of that! ;)
IoDrive prices
Well, prices fluctuate due to ever-changing prices for NAND flash memory and market demand.
Currently you could get the
IoDrive 160GB SLC for: USD 7700
IoDrive Duo 640GB MLC for: USD 18419
prices provided by (05/AUG/2010):
http://ssdeurope.com/solid-state-drives-pciexpress-c-2_70.html
The price seems steep, but take into account that on average a 15K RPM HDD will deliver only about 200 IOPS, whereas the IoDrives deliver up to 270.000 IOPS. It would require more than 1350x 15K RPM HDDs in RAID 0 (which is bad) to just achieve the performance of 1 x IoDrive.
Given that a 15K RPM costs around 350 USD + costs of servers,cooling, processors, cabelling etc, you will see that the IoDrives are actually a bargain.
Hope this explains it a bit further.
With best regards,
Marco Poetzsch
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