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2.04.2010
5.07.2009
Fastest Soild State Drive Ever!
Hard Drives are the main bottleneck of almost any computer to date. The average read/write speed of a standard SATA drive is about 40MB/s. The SSD's are a bit better with read/write speeds around 120MB/s. I then came across the Fusion-io, with read speeds over 700MB/s! It completely blew my mind how much faster this device was than any of the other storage devices.
This drive plugs into a PCI express port cause' a SATA connection isn't fast enough. The basic concept that there is a lot of small flash memory modulus in a RAID 0 array, enabling it to read the same data from many sources at once. Thus the total speed of the drive is the speed of one of the modules divided by the number of modules in the array.
There are only a few downsides to using the Fusion-io. Firstly it's compatible only for 64-bit OS's, which most modern computers are these days any way. Secondly, if you're a gamer you might already be using all your PCI express slots for graphics cards. Lastly, being a brand new technology the price is still a little absurd (80GB for $1,000) but this should change as the demand goes up.
Overall I would recommend the Fusion-io to extreme gamers and folks running there own severs who need more speed but not more space. Until the price goes down I won't be getting to get one for myself for a while.
This drive plugs into a PCI express port cause' a SATA connection isn't fast enough. The basic concept that there is a lot of small flash memory modulus in a RAID 0 array, enabling it to read the same data from many sources at once. Thus the total speed of the drive is the speed of one of the modules divided by the number of modules in the array.
There are only a few downsides to using the Fusion-io. Firstly it's compatible only for 64-bit OS's, which most modern computers are these days any way. Secondly, if you're a gamer you might already be using all your PCI express slots for graphics cards. Lastly, being a brand new technology the price is still a little absurd (80GB for $1,000) but this should change as the demand goes up.
Overall I would recommend the Fusion-io to extreme gamers and folks running there own severs who need more speed but not more space. Until the price goes down I won't be getting to get one for myself for a while.
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