Fusion-io Unviels PCI-e SSD for Gamers

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Man if they can get the price down to $200 or $300 and make it bootable then I may consider getting one...which probably won't be for a couple of years.

 
[citation][nom]redgarl[/nom]Professional gaming is pathetic...[/citation]
So is professional football.

And baseball.

And golf...

But most of all, you are.

"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."
 
For $900 I could have new PC. Or I could get a server board and load up $900 worth of RAM (~24+GB?) and make my self a nice 10GB RAMDisk. Seriously tough, this thing should be aimed more at servers than gamers.
 
[citation][nom]redgarl[/nom]Professional gaming is pathetic...[/citation]

You're just pissed because you hate your job. If I could make sick money playing video games/tournaments, traveling around the world, and endorsing products...um...yeah. Sign me up.
 
Ok, so $900 for 80GB non bootable at 520 MB/s. Or two X25-M 80GB drives and a hardware RAID card in a RAID 0 setup for $700 giving 160GB, performance not much slower and bootable. Or three X25-M 80GB drives with a hardware raid card in RAID 0 setup for about $1025 giving 240GB, fair bit faster performance and bootable. This really looks like terrible value imo.
 
"The drive will plug into a PCI-e x1 slot and offer speeds that break through current SATA standards--even the new and not yet available SATA 6 Gbps."


The Fusion-io ioxtreme is being released on a PCI-e x4 card (like pictured), not a x1 card like the article states. Would be hard to break the current SATA speeds on a x1 pci-e lane 🙂


 
It's going to be bootable with a firmware update,at least that's what it said.

The good thing is there's so many new SSD's coming out from all different manufactures,competition "should" bring the cost down fairly fast.
 
Get SlayerS_`BoxeR` or any *REAL* gamer's name on it and I'll be impressed. Only reason I know who Fata1ty is is that companies put his name on things for some stupid reason.
 
I'm sorry but a grand for 80 gig's is just silly. I really don't care how fast it is but hell, so many games are taking up crazy amounts of space now a days. Let me know when the thing is 500 gigs in size and bootable.
 
If this could get it's price inline with drives suck as the Velociraptor, it would make a big splash. With a $900 price tag, it will be a very slow adoption.

I would personally like to see a hybrid RAM/solid state drive with the OS and commonly used files loaded into the RAM on boot up. Then just mirror everything onto the solid state storage as it runs. I know you can do this with a RAM drive and a software solution, but a hardware solution would be much faster.
 
Stupid question here...

SATA2 is 3.0Gb/s, no? Then why is it 300Mb/s? Shouldn't it be 3000Mb/s?

3 billion is not 300 million, but rather 3000 million. Am I missing something here?
 
"the Super Talent RAIDdrive GS does 1.5 GB/sec. read and 1.3 GB/sec. writes, sustained"

But will it be bootable? 1 or 2 second boot times would be sweet.
 
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