Monday, September 8th 2008
Fusion IO Shows off the Power of 4000 Hard Drives
Fusion IO is known for its NAND flash based storage solutions in the form of expansion cards with dedicated controllers. They've now come up with an IO-SAN card that offers transfers at a stellar 1.5 GB/s. The device can hold 340 GB of data which is roughly a third of a tera-byte. The capacity can be doubled with an add-on card.
Fusion IO claims the IO-SAN card can turn any off-the-shelf server into a full-bore storage area network. The card is installed on a PCI Express slot and has the flash memory right on the card. Fusion IO claims the card can perform up to 200,000 IOPS, with which they seem to have worked out the "power of 4000 hard drives" figure. The card also houses a conventional storage controller so hard drives could be connected. It also has a network controller for 10 GigE or 40 Gb/s InfiniBand.
Source:
TG Daily
Fusion IO claims the IO-SAN card can turn any off-the-shelf server into a full-bore storage area network. The card is installed on a PCI Express slot and has the flash memory right on the card. Fusion IO claims the card can perform up to 200,000 IOPS, with which they seem to have worked out the "power of 4000 hard drives" figure. The card also houses a conventional storage controller so hard drives could be connected. It also has a network controller for 10 GigE or 40 Gb/s InfiniBand.
16 Comments on Fusion IO Shows off the Power of 4000 Hard Drives
I'll buy into it when I can get over 9000, but until then its bullocks.
the techs getting there just not quite
My only problem now would be finding a way to actually CONNECT the damn thing to my PC, as i dont have 10 giga ethernet :(
For $700 with 340gb of 1.5gb/sec flash storage on it,it is cheap not expensive.