Fusion-io ioDrive PCIe Solid State Storage Review

Thu 2008-12-11 - Posted by Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

For the person with an infinite budget, TweakTown have reviewed the Fusion-io ioDrive, an unbelievably fast solid state storage device with a huge price tag.

Here's what they had to say:

"Once you calculate the low power consumption with the small size, it is easy to see how advanced the Fusion-io really is. Even if the ioDrive performed at the same level as the traditional platter drives, it would still be a remarkable product. The thing is that the ioDrive does not perform at the same level of the fastest platter drives; it outperforms them by a very large margin. When it comes to actual server load performance the benchmark numbers are crystal clear. The ioDrive is the fastest drive we have tested, faster than the best solid state SATA II drive and faster than the best enterprise 15,000 RPM drive in an 8 drive RAID configuration."

Yes, this is an entreprise-class product, but it is still interesting to see what capaibilities we can potentially look forward to in the consumer market sometime in the future.

Click here to read the full review.

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