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A 640GB Flash based Hard Drive…only $19,000!

06 Oct

This is the 640Gb Fusion-io flash card which can transfer data at a stupidly fast 800Mb/sec compared to 96Mb/sec for a Ultra SCSI. Its geek heaven and damn expensive at the moment but its a peak into the future and gives us a glimpse of what will probably become standard, and a lot cheaper, in just a few years time…

via A Welsh View

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  1. Gizmodo

    October 8, 2007 at 11:40 pm

    640GB Flash Hard Drive For a Paultry $19,000

    Sure it costs $30 a GB, but Fusion-io’s new ioDrive flash card promises ridiculous 800MB/sec (Read) and 600MB/sec (Write) sustained data transfer rates. That would mean performance on par with DRAM, which would be about a thousand times faster than…

     

  2. Storage: 640GB Flash Hard Drive For a Paltry ,000 | Hizs - The lowdown on gadgets

    October 9, 2007 at 2:56 am

    [...] Sure, it costs $30 a GB, but Fusion-io’s new ioDrive flash card promises ridiculous 800MB/sec (Read) and 600MB/sec (Write) sustained data transfer rates. That would mean performance on par with DRAM, which would be about a thousand times faster than any existing disk drive. Basically, it’s like packing an enterprise SAN into a PCI express card. However, if $19,000 is a little too rich for your blood, you could always settle for a 80GB, 160GB, or 320GB when the ioDrive is released in Q1 2008. 80GB for $2400? Now, that’s value. [Fusion-io via about:blank] [...]

     

  3. Where Is GoogleBot? » Blog Archive » Storage: 640GB Flash Hard Drive For a Paltry $19,000

    October 9, 2007 at 9:29 pm

    [...] Sure, it costs $30 a GB, but Fusion-io’s new ioDrive flash card promises ridiculous 800MB/sec (Read) and 600MB/sec (Write) sustained data transfer rates. That would mean performance on par with DRAM, which would be about a thousand times faster than any existing disk drive. Basically, it’s like packing an enterprise SAN into a PCI express card. However, if $19,000 is a little too rich for your blood, you could always settle for a 80GB, 160GB, or 320GB when the ioDrive is released in Q1 2008. 80GB for $2400? Now, that’s value. [Fusion-io via about:blank] [...]

     

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