Comments on: The World’s Fastest Hard Drive – Fusion ioDrive Duo

By: Genius Idiot

Genius Idiot — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:14:22 +0000

Wow, so many people do NOT understand RAID 1. It is possible for both RAID 0 and RAID 1 to have identical READ performance. For example, if duplicate bits are WRITTEN across both members of a two member array, only half the bits need to be accessed from each member for a READ. This clearly offers a POSSIBLE performance boost if properly utilized by the hardware.

By: James Smith, João Pessoa, Brazil

James Smith, João Pessoa, Brazil — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:50:47 +0000

This is really the fist shot across the bows of Hard Disk Drives. These Solid State Drives will soon be the norm with price points that beat any mechanical drive. Then when you consider speed, reliability, lower power consumption, remember that you heard it here first.

The first hard drives were massive, expensive and, by today’s standards, laughable. The SSD train is leaving the station folks, get on board or get off the platform.

By: Henno

Henno — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:41:21 +0000

Since when is raid1 given any performance advantages? As far as I know raid1 is about security: 2 drives acting in mirror on case one of them should go belly up.

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:35:18 +0000

that’cool…but just designed for the server and enterprise market and can be used in a RAID-1 setup for maximum performance..

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By: No

No — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:44:14 +0000

I know this is super pedantic, but it’s not a hard drive (which is short for hard disc drive). It’s a solid state drive. there is a big difference… one has spinny hard discs inside, the other contains flash memory.

By: Shungo

Shungo — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:57:46 +0000

I heard this new Fusion 640GB card is $9,000 MSRP and they give discounts to corporate customers.

- $9,000 divided by 640GB = $14 per GB

Intel’s X25E 32GB has a $650 MSRP and they give discounts for orders of 1,000 or more drives.

- $650 divided by 32GB = $19 per GB

WOW!
This is cheaper than intel per GB but it’s still way too expensive to buy for my home PC.
Drop prices drop!

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By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:26:31 +0000

“I bet it is going to cost a fair bit ”

Killer journalism there!

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By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:30:58 +0000

Something like $18,000 is what I’ve heard.

By: SuperSparky

SuperSparky — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:20:24 +0000

This is a “Spruce Goose”. It’s already outdated before it’s released. SSD drives have the same capacities, and considerably high speeds as to make the price point of this product pointless.

By the way, RAID-1 is the lowest performing RAID out there. It’s strictly for redundancy. RAID-0 is the fastest performing, and does this by “striping”. With something that expensive, you’d think it would already have a parity scheme so as to render the need for RAID pointless, and perhaps raise its saleability.

By: Rance Muahamitz

Rance Muahamitz — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:19:14 +0000

RAID 1 does not improve performance.

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By: Carlo Mendoza

Carlo Mendoza — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:11:04 +0000

Wow. Not quite ready to jump the SSD bandwagon yet. I hope advances like this bring prices down for laptop/desktop 2.5″/3.5″ SSD HD formfactors.

By: Borellus

Borellus — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:44:00 +0000

Hopefully they will be within my price range some time soon.

By: Freaked out

Freaked out — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:27:25 +0000

I bet it will be used to Store PORN

By: LeMelon

LeMelon — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:34:09 +0000

If only it was less expensive…
I really hope there continues to be more innovation with harddrives – they’re such a big bottleneck at the moment.