CI Express SSD from Fusion-io ioXtreme Is Aimed at the Consumer Market

The first direct-to-PCI-e SSD developed by Fusion-io, the ioDrive, was for the corporate market meant, but even there the cost could not really be justified, regardless of the performance offered by upsides include the direct storage device in the slot. The ioXtreme is a version of the same product is targeted at the consumer market.
In keeping with Fusion-io's reputation, the ioXtreme PCI Express Solid State Drive is not only extremely fast, it is the fastest storage unit is currently on the market. Although it is not such a high storage capacity has (a total of 80 GB), can achieve a read speed of up to an amazing 700MB / s and a speed of 280MB / s write, and has an elegant half height PCI Express card designs.
To achieve this, a more accessible cost, the station was built using the cheaper MLC NAND flash, unlike the ioDrive, which is based on SLC flash technology. The station is there in the Nearly ioXtreme variant alongside the standard one, with the only added feature is the ability to link two identical units in a RAID setup on PCI Express, through the Xlink Technology. This means that these three products together can combine intro a stupefying 2.1 GB / s read throughput.
The SSD is a private cooled by a diminutive heatsink mounted on top of the board's manager of Application Specific IC, by several other chip on the board, supported, such as Siemens DRAM cache and an Intel flash chip configuration which It is responsible for the preparation of the controller chip (it is actually a programmable device).
The main components responsible for the high cost of ioXtreme PCI Express Solid State Drive is the property controller ASIC at all ioXtremes, all Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) is. The future versions of the SSD can become less expensive if the design is stable, by switching to a fully customized, hard-wired ASIC instead of the currently used programmable devices (such as the Xilinx Vertex 5 disc).
The ioXtreme drive can operate at temperatures between -40 ° C and +70 ° C, supporting multiple operating systems including Windows 7. Unfortunately, not as a boot drive is used, Windows software RAID to operate and has no RAID BIOS.
The product can be purchased $ 895. Moreover, the ioXtreme Pro for $ 1,499 can be purchased while the ioXtreme Bundle (ioXtreme + ioXtreme Pro) is available for $ 1,995.