Storage Solutions ioXtreme: The PCI Express Hard Drive

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Back at the end of 2007 I had seen a company called Fusion-IO, which was producing hard drives that ran on your PCI-Express slots. It was a pretty cool idea then, but unfortunately their offering was really salty, and aimed primarily at enterprise customers. Well since one of the co-founders is a hardcore gamer, they decided to branch out and try to bring the same incredible performance to a new crowd.

Enter the ioXtreme. This card holds 80GB of storage (NAND Flash) which is capable of giving you a performance boost that you won’t see by just upgrading your CPU and RAM. Games, large applications like Photoshop and Final Cut will open almost instantaneously. They likened it to bringing up a program that was minimized on your start bar, which is pretty incredible. They even said that it would be possible to boot Windows in just one second. Unfortunately this feature won’t be available at launch, due to them still working out bugs with a few different BIOS, it will however be available via a driver update. The card should be launching later this year for somewhere around $895, though the price is subject to change.
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ioXtreme Specifications:-

Capacity: 80 GB

NAND Type: Multi-Level Cell (MLC)

Average Bandwidth (HD Tach 3.0.4.0): 520 MB/s

Burst Bandwidth (HD Tach 3.0.4.0): 617 MB/s

Latency: < 100 µs

Mean Time Between Failure: 2,000,000 hours

Write Endurance: 6 Years

Form Factor: PCI Express (x4)

Power: PCI Express Power Spec 1.1



Capacity: 80 GB

NAND Type: Multi-Level Cell (MLC)

Average Bandwidth:

HD Tach 3.0.4.0 520 MB/s

Burst Bandwidth:

HD Tach 3.0.4.0 617 MB/s

Latency: < 100 µs

Mean Time Between Failure: 2,000,000 hours

Write Endurance: 6 Years

Form Factor: PCI Express (x4)

Power: PCI Express Power Spec 1.1

System Requirements:

Operating Systems: Windows XP 64-bit

Windows Vista 64-bit

Linux 64-bit

Minimum Hardware: x86 processor

2 GB RAM

x4 PCI-Express slot

SOURCE: ioXtreme| The PCI Express Hard Drive

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