Fusion-io ioDrive Duo shatters SSD HDD speeds: 1.5GB/s read/write via PCI-E x4

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:37 am

These things are already faster than SATA 2 bus speeds...

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=17591

ZYFER · Post by **ZYFER** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:39 pm

You know, I look at it and I just somehow find it damn hard to believe the price tag. It looks so ridiculously cheap, not the thousands of dollars that the price tag is.

Err · Post by **Err** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:46 pm

These will come down in price once other manufactures start making them. It would be sweet to have your OS loaded on one of these.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:18 pm

Yeah they're expensive now, but I remember spending $999 on a 1 Gb SCSI HDD in 1989. Everything gets cheaper. In 5 years spinning hard drives may only be found on desktops and in 10 years they may go the way of the DoDo bird.

Remember when a cheap 15" LCD display cost $2000?

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:17 am

hell the regular SATA solid state drives are in the "usable" range in price for some people.

renovation · Post by **renovation** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 9:21 am

I remember for $2300.00 plus tax for a IBM clone computer. 1088 turbo with a 13 inch monocrome monitor and 2-5 1/2 floppys ,no hard drives and 2 mb ram. and that was a sale price !

tunis5000 · Post by **tunis5000** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:00 am

it'll nice to have games load up in a second one day, but I may be too old to ever see that haha...

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 4:10 pm

These aren't made for mere mortals yet. This is what you'll see in computers of the stupid rich & goverment types. Yeah, it'll be 5 years & everyone will will be wondering why they were so expensive.