SSD News

[Sabre]

As with other threads, it's probably easier to just make a thread about a topic

Virident Systems builds enterprise-class SSD

And dear god does it perform!

Peak Read: 1.44 GB/s
Peak Write: 1.2 GB/s
Sustained R/W: 300,000 IOPS (4KB) 75R/25W
Lifetime: 24 years @ 5TBw's/day

[PGT]

how does that compare to Fusion I/O?

[Sabre]

Depends on which one you are comparing.
ioDrive:
Read Bandwidth (64kB) 770 MB/s
Write Bandwidth (64kB) 750 MB/s
Mixed IOPS (75/25 r/w) 123,000

ioDrive Octal:
Read Bandwidth (64 kB) 6.0 GB/s
Write Bandwidth (64 kB) 4.4 GB/s
75/25 Mix IOPS (512 B) 729,000

The big deal is explained by The Register

SGI is pairing up with Virident flash cards to offer a 1U, one million IOPS server with just two flash cards instead of the eight needed by Fusion-io.

Virident supplies tachIOn PCIe-connected flash cards and two of them are used in a 1U SGI Rackable C1103 server to deliver 1 million IOPS at a cost of less than $0.05/IOPS. Doesn't sound much and it comes out at less than $50,000. Virident is making lots of noise about it being able to do with two 400GB cards what Fusion-io, the PCIe flash card leader, needs eight cards and 5TB to do with its ioDrive Octal product.

[PGT]

SGI's stock is through the roof this year (mainly because their biggest customer is Amazon AWS)