Fusion-io IoXtreme SSD: Fastest Consumer SSD On The Market

4:20PM November 17, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

HotHardware took a look at this consumer-focused PCI-Express SSD from Fusion-io, and found that while it’s pretty damn expensive at $US900 for 80GB, it’s blazingly fast, hitting 700MB/s read and 300MB/s write speeds.

Unfortunately, in addition to the expense, it can’t be used as a bootable drive quite yet, although Fusion-io claims that feature is coming. And we probably shouldn’t gloss over the expense — yeah, it’s a “consumer drive” and it’s cheap compared to similar drives, but it’s still $US900 for 80GB. But it’s a cool look at where storage could be headed, and if you’ve got enough money to snag one (available at Amazon), well, I hate you lots. [HotHardware via Engadget]

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  • matt

    November 18, 2009 at 11:08 AM

    … no it isn’t? OCZ Z drive is apparently $1500 AUD for 1TB and you get 800MB read 700MB write?

    • LOL Think Again

      November 20, 2009 at 7:49 AM

      OCZ has a bad habit of fudging their numbers. Ask around. Z-Drive is a JOKE among real overclockers. Fusion sucks for storage, but in terms of bandwidth they’re the best. You don’t get better performance from anyone else (yet), period. If you want storage on an SSD, go for Intel– even they’re better than OCZ, and they recalled a bunch of their stuff.

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