Fusion-io is known for its flash drives or SSD to PCI Express. The ioDrive reach already flow very respectable, but the solution presented recently by the U.S. Company sprayed all the records. A system designed for two U.S. government agencies has reached an aggregate throughput of 1 TB / s! Latencies do not exceed 50 microseconds, which is a very good value for this kind of configuration.

Let's go a little into detail. Fusion-io has developed a PCI Express x16 named ioDrive Octal. It offers the performance and capacity of not less than 8 ioDrive in a format similar to that of a great graphics card. The performance reaches the maximum throughput that the PCIe bus can provide! Each card offers 800 000 IOPS (4K) or 6 GB / s and a capacity of 5 to.

It took 220 ioDrive Octal to reach the terabyte per second. Just for comparison, 55 440 drives, 396 SAN controllers, 792 servers and 132 racks were needed to obtain similar results. It takes only six racks for the DSS system or 1/20th of the space for a HDD.

Steve Wozniak, the ex-founder of Apple now head of research at Fusion-io is very proud to have produced a system capable of reaching 100 million IOPS and him "looks forward bring the power of SSDs in the world of massive calculations.