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Hail the new SSD speed king!

Twinkle toes Wozniak’s new company, Fusion-io, is tearing up net today with the introduction of the ioDrive, a PCIe mounted 80 – 320GB storage card that pushes 700 MB/s reads and 500 MB/s writes. That’s quick.

Fusion-io's ioDrive

Fusion-io's ioDrive

Not as fast as the newly announced ioDrive Duo, however. Their sophomore release starts at $14k and will push 1.5GB/s reads and 1.4GB/s writes with capacities ranging from 640GB to upwards of 1.28TB when it hits later this year. And that’s just with one card. Performance will scale linearly, they say, meaning you could see 6GB/s reads on a four-card array. That’s fast.

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3 Comments:

  1. RWB
    Thank God for Blue Monsters

    When I plan on getting a new car maybe I'll pick one of these up instead.

  2. deepsea
    Registered User

    Seriously. How long before ATI/NVIDIA get the idea that they could seriously undercut the market prices for PCI ssds?

  3. Zuntar
    Modder extraordinaire

    Patience young grasshoppers.

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