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10-04-08, 12:10 PM
Fusion IO announces monster SSD for gamers
Los Angeles (CA) – Fusion IO, which has made a name for itself with high-performance SSDs for the enterprise segment, preps its first consumer SSD – which promises to be more than twice as fast as the fastest SSDs on the market today. Prosumers, enthusiasts and gamers will be able to benefit from the massive bandwidth of the card, Fusion IO says.
NAND-flash based solid state disks (SSDs) are considered to be the best choice for PCs that rely on low power consumption and especially are focused on high performance applications. However, even the fastest SSDs you can buy today are limited by the bandwidth of SATA II (300 MB/s) and typically achieve read speeds of up to 200 – 250 MB/s on the high end – which would include Intel’s recently announced 80 GB SSDs that sell for $595.
Fusion Io promises that its card will outpace traditional hard drives by a factor of more than 20x and mainstream SSDs by about 5x.
Read more at tgdaily (http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39592/135/)
Los Angeles (CA) – Fusion IO, which has made a name for itself with high-performance SSDs for the enterprise segment, preps its first consumer SSD – which promises to be more than twice as fast as the fastest SSDs on the market today. Prosumers, enthusiasts and gamers will be able to benefit from the massive bandwidth of the card, Fusion IO says.
NAND-flash based solid state disks (SSDs) are considered to be the best choice for PCs that rely on low power consumption and especially are focused on high performance applications. However, even the fastest SSDs you can buy today are limited by the bandwidth of SATA II (300 MB/s) and typically achieve read speeds of up to 200 – 250 MB/s on the high end – which would include Intel’s recently announced 80 GB SSDs that sell for $595.
Fusion Io promises that its card will outpace traditional hard drives by a factor of more than 20x and mainstream SSDs by about 5x.
Read more at tgdaily (http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39592/135/)