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SAN in your hand... PCIe flash storage unveiled.

by dopry | September 28, 2007 at 11:00 pm | 463 views | 1 comment

San Diego (CA) – A new flash storage card from Fusion io could make huge storage area networks go the way of the dinosaur and DoDo bird. The company’s upcoming ‘ioDrive’ combines hundreds of gigabytes of flash storage onto a small computer card and company officials claim that the tiny card could replace banks of hard drives.

I comment on storage techonolgy a lot. We've been seeing amazing advances in SSD drive technology using traditional secondary storage interfaces such as ATA, SCSI, and the more contemporary SATA.

The Fusion IO ioDrive is a completely new beast tying banks of flash memory to an advanced raid like controller and attaching it directly to the PCIe bus. The 1000x performance increase over traditional hard drives is an amazing statistic where io ops per second are concerned. Let alone the amazing increase in bandwidth at 800MBps which is over 2.5x the performance of SATAII and 10x the performance of ATA133. This is a neat little device....

The expected price weighs in pretty hefty at $30/GB, but 10-20GB is sufficient for many of the database applications that could immediate take advantage of this new storage device.

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jordan

at 07:13 on September 29th, 2007

Thanks, dopry. It's super-expensive now, but the prices will eventually drop, and perhaps overall server operational costs will drop as well. Great news for small business.

(My mind leapt to the future, where one can buy ServerInYourPocket at Rite Aid or Boots)