Fusion-io Flash Card Doubles Bandwidth to 3 GB/s
Fusion-io announced the ioDrive 2 at Oracle OpenWorld. As successor to the ioDrive Duo, the flash drive delivers twice the bandwidth for slightly less cost.
According to Fusion-io, the ioDrive 2 will ship in capacities of 365GB, 785 GB, 1.2 TB and 2.4 TB and deliver an I/O performance of up to 700,000 read I/Os per second (IOPS) and more than 900,000 write IOPS. the bandwidth is now at 3 GB/s, which is up from1.5 GB/s in the predecessor. As a generational upgrade, the flash drive now uses 20 nm-class MLC NAND flash, which the company sources from Intel/Micron, Samsung, Toshiba and SanDisk.
Operating system support has been extended and now covers Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris x86, ESXi 5.0 and HP-UX.
If you are looking for enterprise flash drives, there is also the good news that the cards are cheaper. The 365 GB drive will sell for $5950, which compares to a street price of more than $6100 for the 320 GB ioDrive Duo. Fusion-io will follow up with 400 GB, 600 GB and 1.2 TB SLC flash version later this year. No prices are available yet, but expect those drives to sell for five figures.

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I've been extra good lately.
Forget the list I sent you previously.
This will do perfectly.
Love, Me.
I know you've been very, very good lately.
My factories cannot make these chips I'm afraid, so I will not be able to give this present to you. Elf magic apparently isn't the magic smoke that these things run on.
I'm not inclined to steal.
I'm sorry.
Love, Santa
200-500% the rate, at far lower price point ... a room for new ram drive spotted?
$900 versus $6000
Hmmmmmmmm..... tough call.........
In that case, I'd perfer to have Gold instead of the ioDrive. The market for Gold is more bullish than it is for semiconductor/memory devices.
#elitistcommentfail
Except that you will max out that poor SATA3
These are for enterprise applications, namely as a storage cache or work space.
These are the fastest storage you can possible get short of a RAMDisk.
With the $5100 you are saving you could invest in a PCIe SATA RAID card and with the leftover cash buy a NEW CAR!
err... you have $5000 spare, get one and take the family to Disneyland as well.