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post #1 of 4
12/12/08 at 7:36am
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Have you guys seen the test of the fusion iodrive compared to 8 scsi drive in raid? It's an ssd using the PCIe interface instead of the sata connection, it still uses slc memory and it can actually go faster most of the time than 8 of the most expensive mechanic drives in raid.
Micron also has a prototype supposed to be already 2x faster than the iodrive, so this technology seems to evolve much faster than the rest of the storage technology at the moment.
I hope this kind of technology with more space can reach us for much more affordable price in a few years, we then could say goodbye to the loading time of most applications

Pictures taken from the tweaktown test linked.






Here is a picture from the test where the iodrive is compared to 8 of the fastest professional drives, 15K.6 in raid from seagate in different raid setup and also compared to the X25-M Sata SSD from intel.

HDD1 – Windows Defender
HDD2 - Gaming
HDD3 – Windows Photo Gallery
HDD4 – Vista Startup
HDD5 – Windows Movie Maker
HDD6 – Windows Media Center
HDD7 – Windows Media Player
HDD8 – Application Loading

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post #2 of 4
12/12/08 at 8:57am
Wow, $3000 for a 80GB model. Very nice otherwise.

I didn't even realize - you can buy a SSD SATA disks now, and they're priced in the $100s for 150MBps and $300s for 300MBps.
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post #3 of 4
12/12/08 at 9:56am
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Yes 3000$ may look like a lot but at the moment this drive is more destined to the professional market. In some of their application performance is more important than price or capacity.
I' m not sure of the exact price of 8 15k.6 drives but I think it was pretty close to 700$ per 450 gb drive (I think there are some smaller and cheaper version out there though) last time I checked so that would be much more expensive than a single iodrive, heat much more, take more space, eat more power and at the end have less performance.
And as they said in the test nothing stops us from getting one of those drive as main drive then add a 1.5 gb drive for data storage behind.
I know that I would do that if I didn't have to spend my money on headphones
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post #4 of 4
1/17/11 at 8:21pm

I think it would be useful for large data warehouses where IO throughput is very important. That much money to load a game slightly faster is a bit of a waste in my opinion. 

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