How about a Hard Drive with a capacity of 640 Gb that never gets below 800 megabytes per second? Impossible? Fusion io makes it happen with it's new ioDrive, and they aim to get it to the $30 per gigabyte mark.

That's pretty expensive for a Hard Disk, but not so much as previous attempts, like Gigabyte's i-RAM disk, and free from the performance bottlenecks that plaged that product. This time, we aren't dealing with a SATA connected device, but one that enjoys the bandwith provided by a x4 PCIe slot. 800 MB/s read and 600 MB/s write is the minimum under a worst case scenario (small 4K blocks streamed as eight simultaneous 1 GB reads and writes), you can actually expect better everyday performance. You can also forget about batteries to keep the data from disappearing when you shut the computer down, because the ioDrive uses NAND flash chips.

They are targeting the server market for the moment, but such a novelty can't be kept out of the desktop for long. Maybe just the smaller models will be sold first, but given time all the lineup could find it's way to home PCs. We are talking about getting rid of the slowest part of our computers once and for all. Who wouldn't want a shot at it?

Link: TG Daily.

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