Here is a link to the conclusion for others annoyed by the lack of drop down navigation.

What about comparing solutions for the same price? For the price of the Fusion IO you can buy multiple x25e drives, raid them, even "short stroke" them like the fusionIO for better IO performance...
Raiding shouldn't also be a problem for the "server grade" controllers. One good review with two raid0-ed x25es is on the techreport web site...

Why can't toms handle pictures well anymore. All we get is small thumbnails of each picture and we have to click over to a slide show and then click again to see the whole image. Why can't the chart be shown full size in the article. Why do I need to open a new tab and a new window to see the full size version without losing my place in the article?

^+1.

+1 to same price comparison. I think it was cool to do this comparison but if you are going to talk all over the article about RAIDing the Intel then why not do it so we can see how close it comes at the same price point.

I also just noticed that this review/comparison was set up as a slide show rather than an article, what is going wrong over at Toms are the US guys stuck with an interface written in Hindi because it was outsourced to India or something?

I wondered if you could overclock the PCIE frequency and gain more performance that way, of course, without loosing stability

Personally the sweet spot will be 120 or 128GB SLC that can read at or nearly 200 megabytes per second. For XP and only a handful of games my C:\ doesn't really require a huge capacity. I set my My Documents folder to a separate RAID 1 on my D:\ any way (320GB for everything except video) as this reduces any qualms of formatting C:\ if I have no other choice. I do hope Newegg adds an advanced category to differentiate SLC drives from MLC. It's an utter nightmare trying to determine which LCD's are actually 8bit when the vast bulk of 6bit screens are falsely advertised as displaying 16.7 million colors.

The IO drive might be useful for storing databases of a modest size.

The Fusion IO can saturate the future proposed SATA III. It show how poor is the SATA III standard.

I totally agree with "comparing solutions for the same price".

now short stroking is only a useful technique for hard disks, since it only improves the [hard disk head] read latency, and uses the faster tracks on the disk.

Good Idea.
I second it.

Thanks for the link? I couldn't navigate directly to the conclusion unless I just clicked on the 11th square at the top of the page.

I had read horror stories about intel drive speed falling after the drive is fully writted (and rewritten). That should be taken in account in benchmarks.

I don't think you can't short stroke an Intel's SSD since they don't have a platter & head.

Why didn't they do the same bar graph comparison's they did for the Fusion vs. Samsung & Mtron reveiw?

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 140-7.html

Plus, maybe my math is off, but on the database performance the iodrive was doing over 40,000 at one point while the X25 was only doing 5,000. How is this double and not 8x faster?

i want one so badly

I want one so badly

This seems to be Toms getting by on the good graces of it's name. There are obvious comparisons to be done here. You show the vast improvements that the fusionIO drive provides but you do not show what an equal price purchase comparison would yield.
The format of this article is terrible. Why isn't it written as an article and not a slide show, also the graphs should be full sized so people can look at the data and not have to lose their place.
It's called professionalism! Something that this site used to carry and hold with pride, and now it is truly hit or miss. I say this as a 10 year reader, from back when this site was yellow. It is extremely disappointing to see how poorly articles are written and still get posted.

Any chance we could get a bar graph from ioMeter 2003.05.10 (Database Benchmark I/O - Average Throughput [MB/s] for Q1-Q64)?

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 140-7.html

Sure you can. All one needs to do is get a PCIe x1 riser card or PCIe x1 Flexible Extender. (Yes, it's a bit of a pain to make this work, but it IS possible for most PC enthusiasts to do) Any ways, why you would need to put it in a SFF PC is beyond me. The ioDrive really is a server ad-on more than a desktop ad on.

@Editors: Please DO NOT do another article like this in a picture story method.Picture story is fine for the run down of the news for the week. I'll take an article that is well written with out any pictures any day over a picture story. And in this case, a picture in NOT worth a 1000 words.