Fusion-io annouces the pricing on its super fast io-drive
You may remember the io-drive by Fusion-io that we featured on the site back in October, Fusion-io Launches the io-Drive.
It is based on a “revolutionary” silicon-based storage architecture known as ioMemory, improves storage performance by a “thousand fold” while simultaneously providing sustained, random access rates “hundreds of times faster” than the industry’s fastest storage devices.
It slots into a PCIe slot on your PC and has some impressive specs including 800MB/sec read speed, 600MB/sec write speed, and 100,000 IOPS (input/output per second) per PCIe x4 card.
The iodrives will be available later in the year in 80GB, 160GB, 320GB and 640GB capacities, and will retail for around $30 (about £15) per GB.
The io-drive was reported to be costing about $19,000 for the 640GB version, Fusion-io have just announced their pricing for this super fast drive and the 80GB version will cost $2,400 (about £1200), OK so it is still very expensive but it is a hell of a lot cheaper than was previously reported.
Lets hope the price comes down on these, when it gets to about $500 I would consider buying one as the performance gains would be absolutely amazing.
via PC Launches
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I believe the 80GB version is $2,400. There’s a bit of mistake listing the 640GB version twice.
Hi Donald, well spotted
I have fixed the error, thanks for pointing it out