14 DAY TRIAL // Salt Lake City-based American company Fusion-io has recently presented the new Fusion ioFX solid state drive on its official website. This is a PCIe storage solution optimized for workstation use.
The strange thing is that the pricing is quite high. For its price, users can buy two entry-level workstations, or one high end standard configuration system.
“Whether working on shots in a large studio, boutique or as an independent artist, there has long been a performance gap that limits how well even the most cutting edge applications can perform in professional workstations,” said Vincent Brisebois, senior director at Fusion-io.
The ioFX solid state drive comes with a 4x PCIe connector that can be plugged into a 4x PCIe slot on a mainboard.
It also comes with a considerable amount of flash memory, 420 GB to be exact, and it has QDP MLC NAND inside. QDP MSL is short for quad-die package multi-level cell.
The controller is Fusion-io’s own creation and will lead the ioFX to obtain up to 1.4 GB/s read speed, with an average latency time of just 42ns.
Fusion-io’s new SSD is compatible with a wide range of operating systems, including Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Mac OS X, RHEL, SLED and OEL.
The Fusion ioSphere management system is included in the ioFX box and it allows IT managers to monitor and manage all Fusion-io products installed throughout the infrastructure from a single interface.
No matter if you have a Fusion ioFX in a workstation and some Fusion ioDrives in servers, the ioSphere system delivers high performance monitoring and reporting, live performance measurements, system alerts and more, to ensure complete reliability when running the systems.
Pricing sits at a high $2,495, or around 1,900 EUR for the European buyers.
Availability is set for late Spring 2012.