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A little late on this one, but we wanted to spill the beans anyway.
Fusion-io, the purveyor of all things SSD on PCI-e, announced last week that it has a gamer/enthusiast version of its ioDrive. Essentially, a stripped down version of the faster ioDrive, the new ioXtreme is an 80 GB PCI-e SSD card that will be priced at less than $900. The drive will plug into a PCI-e x1 slot and offer speeds that break through current SATA standards--even the new and not yet available SATA 6 Gbps.
Unfortunately, one major feature holds back the ioXtreme from true greatness: boot.
Fusion-io said that while the new ioXtreme isn't bootable, the company will release a firmware update at a later date to enable booting and other features. We recommend early-adopters to hold out until Fusion-io does update the ioXtreme to be bootable, since this is a cried-for feature of many PCI-e SSD solutions.
Performance wise, Fusion-io said that the ioXtreme 80 GB will deliver an "average" read speed of 520 MB/sec. Fusion-io compares its ioXtreme to Intel's X25-E SSD (the fastest SSD currently available) to a tune of 246 MB/sec.
Just for comparison's sake, the Super Talent RAIDdrive GS does 1.5 GB/sec. read and 1.3 GB/sec. writes, sustained.
We forgot to mention that Fatal1ty officially has his name stamped onto Fusion-io's ioXtreme. According to the company's press release:
Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel, the world’s best known PC gamer, and Fusion-io join up at the Fatal1ty E3 booth to launch the ioXtreme, a solid state storage device for high-performance PCs and workstations using 64 bit operating systems. The ioXtreme eliminates application latency, delivering the kind of storage performance once limited to the world’s fastest supercomputers.
Source : Tom's Hardware US
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I want "Fatal1ty" stamped on my left ass cheek just to make my body look hotter
Man if they can get the price down to $200 or $300 and make it bootable then I may consider getting one...which probably won't be for a couple of years.
this is definitely the future for hard drvies i can this becoming the standard in a few years
Professional gaming is pathetic...
The price is wrong!
Professional gaming is pathetic...
So is professional football.
And baseball.
And golf...
But most of all, you are.
"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."
For $900 I could have new PC. Or I could get a server board and load up $900 worth of RAM (~24+GB?) and make my self a nice 10GB RAMDisk. Seriously tough, this thing should be aimed more at servers than gamers.
Professional gaming is pathetic...
You're just pissed because you hate your job. If I could make sick money playing video games/tournaments, traveling around the world, and endorsing products...um...yeah. Sign me up.
Ok, so $900 for 80GB non bootable at 520 MB/s. Or two X25-M 80GB drives and a hardware RAID card in a RAID 0 setup for $700 giving 160GB, performance not much slower and bootable. Or three X25-M 80GB drives with a hardware raid card in RAID 0 setup for about $1025 giving 240GB, fair bit faster performance and bootable. This really looks like terrible value imo.
"The drive will plug into a PCI-e x1 slot and offer speeds that break through current SATA standards--even the new and not yet available SATA 6 Gbps."
The Fusion-io ioxtreme is being released on a PCI-e x4 card (like pictured), not a x1 card like the article states. Would be hard to break the current SATA speeds on a x1 pci-e lane :-)
It's going to be bootable with a firmware update,at least that's what it said.
The good thing is there's so many new SSD's coming out from all different manufactures,competition "should" bring the cost down fairly fast.
Anyone else tired of hearin bout "Fata1ty"?
i was hoping for gigabyte speeds... this is still really fast, but meh... ill get a pci card when they're dirt cheap
Isn't OCZ making one alot bigger for about that price?
Get SlayerS_`BoxeR` or any *REAL* gamer's name on it and I'll be impressed. Only reason I know who Fata1ty is is that companies put his name on things for some stupid reason.
I'm sorry but a grand for 80 gig's is just silly. I really don't care how fast it is but hell, so many games are taking up crazy amounts of space now a days. Let me know when the thing is 500 gigs in size and bootable.
nice try, 520MB/s breaks PCIe spec too!
"priced at less than $900" lol
$899.95 + tax & shipping
!!! buy it now
I would love that for raw file editing though.
What, $900 is a new mark of affordability?
Maybe we should all hunker down $1000 for a Intel XE shall we?
If this could get it's price inline with drives suck as the Velociraptor, it would make a big splash. With a $900 price tag, it will be a very slow adoption.
I would personally like to see a hybrid RAM/solid state drive with the OS and commonly used files loaded into the RAM on boot up. Then just mirror everything onto the solid state storage as it runs. I know you can do this with a RAM drive and a software solution, but a hardware solution would be much faster.
the price is definitely WRONG......bitch....
Stupid question here...
SATA2 is 3.0Gb/s, no? Then why is it 300Mb/s? Shouldn't it be 3000Mb/s?
3 billion is not 300 million, but rather 3000 million. Am I missing something here?
"the Super Talent RAIDdrive GS does 1.5 GB/sec. read and 1.3 GB/sec. writes, sustained"
But will it be bootable? 1 or 2 second boot times would be sweet.
Stupid question here...SATA2 is 3.0Gb/s, no? Then why is it 300Mb/s? Shouldn't it be 3000Mb/s?3 billion is not 300 million, but rather 3000 million. Am I missing something here?
Gigabits and gigabytes, 8 bits in a byte (or sometimes decimal conversions are used instead of octal >
Apparently making the Cartman face cuts off my comment, but the important bit made it *greater than less than*
Woot for triple post! Typically you can distinguish between bit and byte listing by GB for gigabyte and Gb for gigabit, which is the convention used in the article.
Is the loading time in games so terrible that people would spend $900 to cut it down a little? Is there really a market for this?
fatal1ty plays quake right? isn't there some 21st century gamer that is more representative of this generation?
900 bucks for 80GB? Thats over 10 dollars per GB when regular hard drives are less than 10 cents per GB. Are you really willing to spend 100 times more money to save a few seconds on your game loads? My friend loves to laugh at me because he loads into Left 4 Dead maps quicker, but it doesn't matter because he still has to wait for me and other people to load the map anyways.
In fact, one could argue that this storage drive is MORE expensive than RAM! You can easily get 4 GB of DDR2 800 on Newegg for 20-30 bucks, which makes RAM less than 10 dollar per GB.
New tech is always stupid expensive. The current price isn't really all that important. It'll come down to mainstream enthusiast levels (i.e. VelociRaptor price-point) in the not so distant future. The important part is that this product exists, which is pretty exciting (or atleast it will be once it's bootable).