Okay, so maybe you didn't need a full-on review to tell you that Fusion-io's
ioXtreme PCI Express SSD was staggeringly pricey, but at $11 per gigabyte ($895 for 80GB), you may want to turn a blind eye right now if you're short on disposable income. If you've managed to continue on, then you owe it to your collective senses to give the read link a look. The gurus over at
HotHardware were able to get one of these lightning fast devices in for review, and while we were always assured that performance would be mind blowing, it's another thing entirely to see those promises proven in the lab. Critics found the card to be the "fastest overall
SSD solution on the market today," with consistent 700MB/sec reads and 300MB/sec writes. Of course, they were still anxious to get their hands on a supposedly forthcoming update to make this thing bootable, and the omission of a RAID BIOS definitely put a small damper on things; still, it's hard to let annoyance such as those overshadow the monster performance numbers, but we'd recommend giving the full skinny a good lookin' at before committing your child's college education fund to a pile of NAND.
posted November 16th 2009 5:23PM
How come the price is so much although the speed is good and fast so it might be a good buy for some people. But i am not going for it right now and will keep waiting till t he prices drop further down the line.
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We had one of these on trial basis a year or two ago to test for a web server. The problem is the thing needed its own custom drivers so depending on which OS you need it could be crap.
I dont care how many MB/s they can shuffle, thats completely unintresting and irrelevand for the SSD use case (Disk to run your OS and some apps from).
If this thing cant deal with random reads and writes it is completely worthless.
This thing is 2.5 times as large and 6 to 7 times as fast as the mTron Mobi3000 32GB drives I bought in April of 2008. Price is only about $100 more than I paid. SSD prices continue to drop. Give it a year and we'll see some better products for less money.