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Fusion-io Announces the ioDrive Duo - The World's Fastest and Most Innovative SSD

Don't tell me let me guess how much it cost. An arm, a leg, and a kidney combine? Hopefully by 2010 it will only cost a teeth and I don't mind a minor toothache.

don't give your teeth for that... rather a give up your toes or something like that, perhaps an ear... i lost my two upper front teeth to a bike crash, it hurted like hell for a month... (thats the cost of extreme mountainbiking... check out my piece of hardware that i want)
:D:D:D<--without two tooth (whats the plural for tooth, teeth sounds weird to me for only two... english ain't exactly my mothertongue)
 
Just found a slower ioDrive that is 640GB. Data rates: 800 MB/sec (read), 600 MB/sec (write), and SATA hard drives support up to 90 MB/s.

$19,200.

for that price, go buy loads of SSD's and run them in RAID :laugh:
 
It isn't bootable by now (see here), but that doesn't hurt much what it's intended for. Remarkable device, clearly the way to go. Maybe several years from now similar drives won't be uncommon on desktops, too.



Note that in Q4 2008, Fusion-IO will release a firmware upgrade that WILL show the ioDrive in BIOS and therefore the ioDrive WILL become bootable at that time!

The other disadvantage is that the ioDrive is not yet bootable. This feature is coming though in the form of a simple firmware update in Q4 2008.
 
Note that in Q4 2008, Fusion-IO will release a firmware upgrade that WILL show the ioDrive in BIOS and therefore the ioDrive WILL become bootable at that time!

The other disadvantage is that the ioDrive is not yet bootable. This feature is coming though in the form of a simple firmware update in Q4 2008.

its 2009....
 
Don't even try thinking about getting an SSD, the race is still going. You can tell by a mile once you realize that this company is just copying off OCZ's idea with PCI Express, just to stay one step ahead. If you buy now, there will be an SSD that is far better than your what use to be the best SSD money can buy.
 
Don't even try thinking about getting an SSD, the race is still going. You can tell by a mile once you realize that this company is just copying off OCZ's idea with PCI Express, just to stay one step ahead. If you buy now, there will be an SSD that is far better than your what use to be the best SSD money can buy.


Its the other way around. IoDrive was out before OCZ even knew what SSD smells like.

And the race will never stop. At some point will have only SSD drives, then we will have SSDDX drives, then who knows. So its nothing new.
 
So if it IS 2009, then according to my calculations, every ioDrive IS bootable.

The aforementioned firmware was never released and the original ioDrive is still not bootable. Since they don't mention this feature in the press release of the new product, I doubt it is bootable ...
 
FYI the IO drive even if bootable or not wouldn't show as a regular drive...

It will be in the boot device section as some sort of addon card. DUH.
 
That is a yes.

Knew it.
 
MAybe it is a yes, or maybe it just means you need to use a boot manager to load your OS on it. Either way, marketing reps are never to be trusted.
 
He is not a marketing rep, he is a Chief technical officer. Very similar to Director of Research and Development.


FYI the IO drive even if bootable or not wouldn't show as a regular drive...

It will be in the boot device section as some sort of addon card. DUH.


Watch the video. Again!
 
whoa... $3000...
 
time to be mother boards have more pci-e slots , and this storage is great solution for servers
 
:respect:

1.5GB's?

Damn!

As for it being bootable, this one might actually be, seeing that it has a RAID controller built in.
Anyway for it's intended target, servers and storage solutions, this has no relevance as virtualization is practically anywhere nowadays...
 
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