Fusion-io ioXtreme PCI Express SSD Review
HotHardware have posted a review of the Fusion-io ioXtreme, an enterprise-class solid state drive card that plugs directly into a PCI Express x4 slot. This model has an 80GB capacity and claimed 700MB/sec read, 280MB/sec write speeds.
Here's what they had to say:
"The ioXtreme drives performed a lot like their higher-end brethren, the ioDrive, from Fusion-io. These diminutive, half-height cards offered peak bandwidth that was often times three to five times faster than a standard SSD and in some cases, as with our Iometer testing, even versus higher-end solutions like OCZ's Z-Drive. The ioXtremes excel in random, fast read operations like application loading, where the bulk of the end user experience in desktop environments lies. Where it lagged behind higher-end solutions like the Z-Drive occasionally, was with write operations where the product's peak throughput tops out at 300MB/sec."
Although this type of product might be hugely impressive for specific purposes, the fact that you can't boot off of it makes it fairly useless for the general public.
Click here to read the full review.
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