Fusion-io's ioDrive Duo SSDs Bring The Speed

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Remember that Z Drive SSD that OCZ was displaying at CeBit last week? Well Fusion-io have been making a similar product since last year, which has just been given an update. The ioDrive Duo uses a PCI Express interface to give you access to 160GB, 320GB, 640GB or even 1.28TB of speedy SSD storage. While that may not be particularly impressive on its own, the claimed sustained read and write bandwidth of 1,500MB/s and 1,400MB/s respectively certainly is (unless you fancy building a huge SSD RAID array I suppose). Of course, products such as the ioDrive Duo aren't aimed at mere mortals such as you and I, but rather at enterprises who are happy enough to stump up the cash for such a thing. All models apart from the 1.28TB variant will be available next month, with that top capacity version coming in the second half of the year.

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Lijooni on March 11, 2009 05:20PM That sounds SO awesome! I've done a lot of research on the best computer equipment (in case I ever get a chance to make a super rig), and I've compiled a list. This is definitely going on the list :) reply to this

RogerDeath on March 11, 2009 05:45PM Yeah, something this fast would defiantly speed up the loading of games from a hard drive to the RAM. Installing things would be easier too with that write speed. reply to this

DLS2008 on March 11, 2009 07:25PM I was going to post that after I came home from water polo... :( O well, it's still pretty freaking sweet, but I want to know the prices first. reply to this

ClayMeow on March 12, 2009 06:48AM We'll be lucky if this reaches the consumer market within two years. reply to this

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