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Samsung invest millions into Fusion-io SSD specialists

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 21st 2009 No Comments

Samsung have invested "millions" of dollars into SSD storage firm Fusion-io, with the two companies looking to work more closely on solid-state memory applications in future.  Fusion-io are responsible for a range of SSDs that slot into a desktop PCI slot rather than using a SATA channel.  While not usually intended for use as a primary, e.g. boot drive, they make for incredibly fast serving of data: the ioDrive Duo, for instance, offers 1.28TB of storage and read rates of up to 1,500MB/sec.

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PhotoFast G-Monster PCIe 1TB SSD

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Mar 26th 2009 No Comments

Fusion-io aren’t the only people who can put massive amounts of solid-state memory into a desktop PCIe card, as Japanese firm PhotoFast announce their G-Monster PCIe SSD.  Available in capacities up to 1TB, the card boasts read speeds of up to 750MB/s.

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Fusion-io ioDrive Duo SSDs: up to 1.28TB of stupid-fast storage

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Mar 12th 2009 No Comments

Fusion-io hardly needed to reinforce their position as manufacturers of the world’s fastest SSD, but the record-breaking ioDrive now has a storage-boosted sibling in the shape of the Fusion-io ioDrive Duo SSD.  Unlike the first model, which maxes out at 640GB, the ioDrive Duo will be available in capacities up to 1.28TB.

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Fusion IO’s io-Drive confirmed world’s fastest SSD

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Dec 11th 2008 No Comments

Intel claimed fastest SSD with the launch SLC-based X25-E Extreme, but there’s a new kid in town proven to excel both the write and read speed of the Intel by a large margin. Folks at tweaktown has published an in-depth review of the Enterprise series Fusion-IO PCI-express based NAND flash storage; it posted an astonishing 470 MB/s reading and 353 MB/s average speed on HD Tune, about 2.5x (read) and nearly 5x (write) faster than Intel with results of 184MB/s and 73MB/s on the similar workbench. Forget Intel, Fusion is toe to toe with Seagate Cheetah 15.6k series SAS drives.

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ioDrive – A hard drive that connects via PCIe

By Chris on Friday, Oct 5th 2007 2 Comments

These days hard drive manufacturers are looking more toward SSD drives, as they are the future. However, a Utah-based company has decided to take a different approach to storage. Would you consider plugging your hard drive directly into a PCIe slot?

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