io io Drive - PCIe Solid State

[mr soft]

A pair of these would be nice. write bandwidth 550 MB/s , read bandwidth 700 MB/s .

10GB/s to be exact from a 4-lane PCIe slot

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1683/1/exclusive_look_at_fusion_io_iodrive_pcie_solid_state/index.html

[Blue_MiSfit]

LOL very cool. Hideously expensive, I'm sure :)

~MiSfit

[saint-francis]

Don't think you can boot from it though. Solid state drives are still the way to go IMO.

[MfA]

I'd rather have a PCIe board with two dozen DDR2 slots.

[burfadel]

Yeah a cost effective 'RAM extension' card :) Windows could use this as RAM extension (such as for its superfetch etc) and pagefile, through support in Windows. Would be significantly better than pagefile. Its different to buying more RAM as the RAM on the board would be very cheap cost effective modules (aka slow in comparison to the normal RAM) were you could have 16gb or 32gb etc or more of 'secondary' RAM :) Just an idea.

[Blue_MiSfit]

Hmm..

Some company makes these

~MiSfit

[MfA]

Not for an interesting price ... a couple of FPGAs (just run everything at really low frequency so you can put more DIMMs on a channel) and DDR2 sockets and the backplane, total bill of parts won't break 50$ in mass production ... any decent EE student can design it ... why can't I buy one cheap?

Patents?

PS. ANS-9010B is getting close ... but not enough sockets, everything over 2 GB is ridiculously expensive so I would really want something with lots and lots of sockets.

[burfadel]

Yeah they do :) but its a niche market at the moment which makes them a lot more expensive than what they would otherwise be. I was suggesting making it more mainstream, and having the support built in to Windows (and not have readyboost). I'm literally talking about cheap RAM, not Flash RAM, such that data is loss when the computer is off (I mean off, not just in S3 standby where the computer looks like its off). This isn't something you can really patent, as its not introducing a new unique feature.