ioDrive by FusionIO
Hi,
I've recently read about FusionIO [1], a startup promoting a product called ioDrive. It attaches a couple of NAND chips to commodity servers via PCI Express (x4). They claim reaching much higher throughput and lower latency with their device, compared to normal SSDs, which pipe their data through SAS or (S)ATA.
The general idea makes lots of sense to me, except that I wish they would not only emulate a block device, but also provide an MTD interface. (Even if the currently available file systems probably don't cope well with the sizes they offer (claiming up to 320 GiB), yet.) (And who knows, maybe the hardware would allow it, and one just needs to write the drivers?)
The company looks pretty "professional", also in the rather negative sense that they don't disclose much information about their product's internals. Or does anybody on this list have more information about their products? More thoughts or comments?
Regards
Markus