ioDrive

[elsegundo]

hey guys,
read this in a magazine and wondered if it might interest anyone. looks like a solid state drive but is on your PCI-E slot. anyone already heard of this? price is steep so im thinking it will be a novelty item for a few more years.

http://www.fusionio.com/Products.aspx

[Noids99]

Yeah its more of an enterprise product at this stage. FusionIO are apparently going to release a consumer product of 80GB called the Ioxtreme in the first quarter of this year though. Price is going to be "under $1000. Given the current state of world economics though, they may have decided to postpone production of such a high end consumer part.

[not5150]

hey guys,
read this in a magazine and wondered if it might interest anyone. looks like a solid state drive but is on your PCI-E slot. anyone already heard of this? price is steep so im thinking it will be a novelty item for a few more years.

http://www.fusionio.com/Products.aspx

I've interviewed the execs and played with the product for several hours. It does everything as advertised and is expensive.

The regular model isn't aimed at the home user, rather it's for enterprise servers that are running heavy i/o intensive tasks (databases, etc).

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39600/135/

[Sam DeathWalker]

Excellent product but if they wait one year then 24G of system ram will be common enough and at least for us there won't be a market.

[elsegundo]

ok thanks guys for the replies. i figured this was something of a blast from the past, as i do remember in older systems, the RAM were in ISA slots. ISA? wtf?
anyway, hopefully we'll see something useful and more affordable in the future.