Fusion-io ioXtreme and ioXtreme Pro PCI Express SSDs sneak out
By Darren Murph 
posted October 27th 2009 3:21PM
posted October 27th 2009 3:21PM
posted October 27th 2009 3:21PM
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Giggity.
If these babies have a good power consumption rate and a decent price I'd surely do some overspending to have a laptop with one of 'em.
a laptop?
did you look at the product?
how many laptops have a PCIe X4 half height card slot available?
mine does. :)
You mean if I copy a 1GB file onto one of these, it'll be done in 3.4 seconds?
:3
yes... if you copy it from another one of them
I thought that the limiting factor is not necessarily the io controller but the controller on the SSD itself? If that is the case, why bother....
Time to get Wiki/Google-ing
this is a self contained card.
that plugs into a PCIe x4 card slot.
and utilizes the PCIe bus instead of a sata interface.
and it has it's own onboard controller.
Now this. This is interesting.
are these drives bootable on all mobos out of the box? or would the mobo require a BIOS update?
Last time I checked you actually can't boot off these things. They said it's a feature that they want to add in the future but won;t be there at launch.
A quick glance at the manual would seem to confirm this is the case.
They told me that a year or so ago when I asked them about it. They said they would release a bios update that would fix that. I assume by the time these get to market, that'll be ready to go.
Can someone on the editorial staff learn the difference between MBps and Mbps, please? These drives are *slow* if indeed you used the correct notation.
Either they updated it without notifying, or you're backwards, because 300 MBps is pretty fast.
Yes, they updated it.
what're you talking about? a MB is a Megabyte and a Mb is a Megabit. MB > Mb
they used the correct notation and it's freaking fast....
*headdesk*
It's MB/sec (megabytes per second) and Mbps (megabits per second) "MBps" isn't a thing.
@Ryan
Are you sure because I always thought it was MBps and Mb/sec. People always get these mixed up (vs MB/sec and Mbps), not knowing that they mean two completely different things. IDIOTS
*rolls eyes*
No info on price .
Want big-time but wallet is small-time. :-(
I went to the Fusion-io site, it states "80GB of high-performance, non-volatile storage for $895". *bummed*
Are these things going to become mainstream SSD's in the next few years, or are they always going to be like exotic overclocked enthusiasts only items? Also, do the read speeds degrade over time?
i thought the speed degradation over time on SSD's was taken care of with Trim and the "garbage collection" when idle.
man i hate this, its such a dam tease seeing this for some 900$ and knowing it would be like 3 years or so till id break down and buy one for like 400$.
lol at some point it wont be economical to invest in lots of ram anymore, get like 2gb of ram and a kick ass SSD!
@dro
It will always be economical to invest in RAM. As fast as a good SSD is, the latency and speed of the bus, even PCIe, is much higher than what you get when your memory controller is integrated into your CPU.
You want the speed of the SSD to minimize the impact of going to disk, and you get more RAM to reduce the likelihood of applications in memory being pushed out to disk.
@microlith
true. however with the new intel chips lynnfield, pciexpress controller is onboard. granted its bandwidth is shared between your pciexpress SSD and your vid card.
i know the general saying is something like:
register 1 cycle
cache 10 cycle
memory 100-1000 cycle
HD 1,000,000 cycles to access
at some point with these SSD's the HD access will be down to like the thousands of cycles, getting close to crappy ram. granted at that point ram access times may be something like 20 cycles, much better than the best SSD.
I'd like random 4K read/writes and judge their performance from there.
Industrial boards with PCI express can be easily configured to your needs.
See www.duropc.com
And you just happen to be the one running that outfit right?
Now that intel has the new CPU's that have reduced PCIE lanes suddenly there's a need for them, gigabyte and asus just announced new mobo's with SATA3.0 and USB3 but those are tied to PCIE lanes for instance, and that means it's becoming problematic, you need to pick what you want to have working.
Meanwhile more and more PCIE cards are being released (finally), it's like they were waiting until it was a problem.
WHAT THE SHIT, that's fast :|
I'll have 5, thanks. How much is that?
What do you mean an arm and a leg?