Fusion-io 640GB Flash Card with High Data Transfer Rates

Fusion-io, an Utah-based start-up company has created a better alternative to traditional hard drives. The ioDrive, based on a silicon-based storage architecture known as ioMemory, improves storage performance while simultaneously providing sustained, random access rates hundreds of times faster than the industry’s fastest storage devices.

The card is a PCIe storage card which can be slotted into motherboards with a free PCIe slot. The memory card’s specifications are very impressive: 800MB/sec read speed, 600MB/sec write speed, and 100,000 IOPS (input/output per second) per PCIe x4 card. 

The difference between an ioDrive and SSD is that the prior one is a silicon-based storage solution that plugs into the PCIe connector of a server, placing data closer to the CPU and memory. The card also provides high service life of eight years compared to the five year service life of mechanical hard drives. When ioDrive’s ioMemory start to fatigue, the result is a reduction in available free space rather than data loss or sudden failure.

The ioDrives will be available in first Quarter of 2008 in 80GB, 160GB, 320GB and 640GB capacities with price of approximately $30 per GB.

Source: Fusion-io