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SSD News
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 12:04 pm
by 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
Re: SSD News
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 1:07 pm
by PGT
how does that compare to Fusion I/O?
Re: SSD News
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 2:10 pm
by 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.
Re: SSD News
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 2:26 pm
by PGT
SGI's stock is through the roof this year (mainly because their biggest customer is Amazon AWS)