[citation][nom]jonathan1683[/nom]Why cant we boot from them? Raid cards are bootable in pci slots....[/citation]
I don't know the specifics, I just recall reading an article on the Fusion-io drive here stating:
"As already mentioned, the card is a storage device, but it’s not a fully-featured drive and you cannot boot from it."
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fusioinio-iodrive-flash,2140-2.html
some of the gurus here may be able to explain it better...
but it would be nice to have this kind of access time, read/write time, and interface bandwidth in a bootable drive.
Then again, it would also be nice for manufacturers and programmers to switch from binary to a tertiary language in order to increase performance based on a +5v, 0v and -5v signal
some things are embraced by industry, others are avoided for various reasons.