The new hard drive created by the Utah based start-up company Fusion-io incredibly improves storage performance by 100x using a new silicon-based storage architecture known as ioMemory (Indexed Object Memory)
It slots into a PCIe slot on your PC and has some impressive specs
including 800MB/sec read speed, 600MB/sec write speed, and 100,000 IOPS (input/output per second) per PCIe x4 card.
Actually company’s tagline says it all – “The power of a SAN in the palm of
your hand!”
The iodrives will be available later in the year in 80GB, 160GB, 320GB and 640GB capacities, and will retail for around $30 (about £15) per GB.
Let’s not forget that all technology starts out expensive and there is a huge potential for large scale implementations by companies such as banks and governmental security systems that have large databases that require more speed over cost.
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