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Did a search before hand and came up with nothing so here goes :

This looks promising, 640GB of raided NAND flash all put together on a single PCIE card. The websites states

100,000 IOPS
640GB space
800 Megabytes per second transfer speed.

Now even if they only achieved half of that on each category that would still make for an awesome solid state boot up drive. According to there website, they plan to release smaller versions (40/80/160/320) before the end of the year and the 640GB early next year.

Could be promising and the first really big change in the harddrive market for ages.........if its cheap enough, especially the 40GB model.

http://www.fusionio.com/
 
Cripes almighty that'll be expensive!...although your I/O would be insane, yes.
Anyone wanna buy a kidney?...lol
-Ghent
 
For sure it will be more expensive than normal HD's on todays market, hopefully it wont be as expensive as the other solidstate drives especially in the 40GB category, like i said, it might be too expensive for the storage categories (320/640GB).......but a 40GB drive with even half them specs would make an awesome boot drive.
 
Well now we know why the DDRDrive is DOA. It doesn't stand a chance against this product. In fact, if I had to take a guess, I would have to bet the whole hard drive industry will be in danger soon, as if it wasn't already. Solid State Drives don't even hold a candle to this thing, either. The question will come down to affordability. If they can produce enough of them to make them actually affordable (even if on the high price side) I would be all over it.
 
I am no expert, but that `thing' looks a lot like it is targeted at the enterprise market, not home consumers. I surely would not bet on it being anywhere near the cheap mark. Also, marketing can claim whatever they like, those numbers are -to quote their website- ``preliminary''. Let's see them produce it and then we can worry about how DDR-based SSDs are dead in the water.
 
This was quoted from another article so take it with a grain of salt but if it's even remotely close to being true these are definately not targetted at your average joe.

"So their $30 per GB comment combined with the models listed produce the following:"

"80GB = $2400"
"320GB = $9600"
"640GB = $19,200"

The $30 per GB was quoted from someone supposedly working for Fusion in an interview.
 
Sireal said:
This was quoted from another article so take it with a grain of salt but if it's even remotely close to being true these are definately not targetted at your average joe.

"So their $30 per GB comment combined with the models listed produce the following:"

"80GB = $2400"
"320GB = $9600"
"640GB = $19,200"

The $30 per GB was quoted from someone supposedly working for Fusion in an interview.
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Here's the interview. It does look like an interesting device, but I'd like to see a smaller version (8GB, say) with a gig of ram on it as well. That'd make a heck of a log device for your journaled filesystem.
 
I would readily spend $800 for a 40gig version.
 
Sireal said:
This was quoted from another article so take it with a grain of salt but if it's even remotely close to being true these are definately not targetted at your average joe.

"So their $30 per GB comment combined with the models listed produce the following:"

"80GB = $2400"
"320GB = $9600"
"640GB = $19,200"

The $30 per GB was quoted from someone supposedly working for Fusion in an interview.
Click to expand...

Way too rich for my blood. I guess my "need for speed" has gone the way of my sex drive...a lot lower. ;)
 
I wrote ddrdrive to find out what is up, here is their reply

The first generation DDRdrive X1 is being sold exclusively to Intel. Our
second generation is expected to be released (worldwide) in 2Q or 3Q this
year.

The drive for speed,

Christopher George
Founder/President
DDRdrive LLC

Anyways, so it isn't dead. Just being held back by somebody else. I am not sure if Intel is just holding it for intellectual rights, or they are actually using it.
 
Man if that price was for a 160gb version, that would have been insane :D
 
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