Fusion-io ups SSD ante
Thu, Mar 12th, 2009 |
Solid state storage maker Fusion-io has upped the capacity ante in the SSD game, launching has launched the ioDrive Duo, a PCI-Express peripheral card with 640GB.
The ioDrive Duo is a kicker to the company's first generation of SSDs and doubles up the capacity by cramming two modules on the same board. The ioDrive Duo is rated at 186,000 read I/O operations per second (IOPS) on reads (using 4Kb packets) and a surprising 167,000 IOPS on writes (also using 4Kb packets). Fusion-io says the device has a latency of under 50 microseconds.
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