DEMOfall '07 housed one of the most revolutionary announcements that I have seen in a long time that could very well change the way we all store our information in the very near future.
Fusion-io CEO David Flinn demonstrated their company's wave-of-the-future SAN drive, the 'ioDrive' which reportedly combines hundreds of gigabytes of flash storage on a small computer card that can fit in your shirt pocket. The device will connect through PCIe, and will have capacities up to 640GB!!! And that's only the start, the company is hoping to roll out a 1.2TB card in the not-too-distant future.The impressive part to me is the data transfer rates. Flynn stated that the card has 160 parallel pipelines that can read data at 800 megabytes per second and write at 600 MB/sec.
Which in marketing terms means the ioDrive can perform "nearly a thousand times faster than any existing disk drive," and it can reportedly be integrated into existing data centers or workstations without any alterations to your infrastructure. This could play a huge role down the road in slimmer portable devices whose size limitations have had to do with the need for an internal Hard Drive.
Any guesses when Apple will jump on the bandwagon? I'd love to have some of these hooked up to a MacPro!
The devices will start showing up on the market next Quarter for professional Servers at $30 per GB, starting at 40 and 80GB, with 320 and 640GB models rolling out some time next year. Fusion also hopes to develop a 1.2TB version by the end of 2008.
Videos of the unveiling can be seen here.
[via TG Daily]
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