Fusion-io and Fatal1ty Announce ioXtreme
Category: Storage / Hard DrivesPosted: June 8, 2009 07:48AM
Author: jammin
Fusion-io have traditionally offered solid state storage devices for the enterprise market, such as the ioDrive Duo we heard about back in March. At E3 last week it announced the ioXtreme in collaboration with Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel, an 80GB solid state storage device on a PCI Express (x4) card. Performance numbers are a claimed average bandwidth of 520MB/s, with burst bandwidth coming in at 617MB/s, both measured with HD Tach 3.0.4.0, which is something of a departure from the usual read / write specs we are used to reading with SSD releases. The tie in with a gaming brand like Fatal1ty also seems slightly strange on the surface, with gaming being an activity that is not greatly affected by the speed of storage devices. From a marketing perspective it does make a lot of sense however, and content creation and file manipulation are also mentioned. Fusion-io say that the ioXtreme will come in at a list price of $895 when it launches in July. If you want to drop that kind of cash, then you can register for the opportunity to order one before they are "generally available" on Fusion-io's official site for the device.
