Fusion-ios latest...this is just bad ass

[hyperasus]

Fusion-io’s ioDrive Octal SSD achieves 1TB/sec bandwidth (http://www.pclaunches.com/hard_drive/fusionios_iodrive_octal_ssd_achieves_1tbsec_bandwi dth.php)

[GrimX9]

Achieving a 1TB/s sustained bandwidth with existing state-of-the-art storage technologies requires close to 55,440 disk drives, 396 SAN controllers, 792 I/O servers and 132 racks of equipment.

Fusion-io can achieve this same bandwidth with a mere 220 ioDrive Octal cards, housed in Infiniband-attached I/O servers running the Lustre parallel file system. This 1TB/s Fusion-io based solution requires only six racks or less than 1/20th the rack space of an equivalent, high-performance, hard disk drive-based storage system.

May be a bit misleading, thinking that the card alone (a single card) can run at 1TB/second

[I.M.O.G.]

I assumed it wasn't solo - not familiar with a bus that can handle 1TB/second. ;)

[petteyg359]

With prices upwards of $15,000 per card, that's over $3 million, just for the cards... The inifinband hardware to connect them is probably even more expensive. Who actually uses this stuff?

[Neuromancer]

According to the article at least 2 government locations :)

[Shiggity]

With prices upwards of $15,000 per card, that's over $3 million, just for the cards... The inifinband hardware to connect them is probably even more expensive. Who actually uses this stuff?

The electricity bill certainly justifies it, just turning these high performance systems on is millions per year.

[Neuromancer]

So basically they are These Octopled per slot (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227497)

[Evilsizer]

possibly but would need to be SLC i would think vs MLC due to the higher data rate.

i didnt know those cards were retail already... though they are only 256gb cards right now, found the M8 version for tough over 1k. not bad IMO for the xfer rate, i dont think they are bootable are they...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227498

[Flurp]

Fusion-io can achieve this same bandwidth with a mere 220 ioDrive Octal cards, housed in Infiniband-attached I/O servers running the Lustre parallel file system. This 1TB/s Fusion-io based solution requires only six racks or less than 1/20th the rack space of an equivalent, high-performance, hard disk drive-based storage system.


I'm not the smartest but is this saying you need 220 cards to get the speed?

[Evilsizer]

I'm not the smartest but is this saying you need 220 cards to get the speed?

thats right you need 220 of them to reach that speed. check out this thread i posted a link to.
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=625128

[petteyg359]

not bad IMO for the xfer rate, i dont think they are bootable are they...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227498

They're as bootable as any other PCIe drive controller.