Fusion-io, a company developing solid-state technology and high-performance I/O solutions has announced the launch of ioXtreme, its first consumer product.

 

ioXtreme provides the PC users with 80 GB of PCI-Express-based, high-performance, solid state storage that was designed for the world’s fastest supercomputers.

 

As modern multi-core CPU’s perform tens of billions of instructions per second, they need to sit needlessly idle waiting for disks to access files because the mechanical disk drive technology is not being able to match with the performance of today’s PCs.

 

The slow speed disk drives that were inspired by Edison’s phonograph and originally invented more than 40 years ago cause delay in starting applications, manipulating large files or doing just about anything that involves moving data to or from disk.

 

The new ioXtreme promises to close this performance gap by providing inexpensive, high-capacity archival storage and allowing PC users to utilize disk drives for advanced computing tasks.

 

Adapting Fusion-io’s industry-leading solid state storage technologies, the ioXtereme brings a revolutionary consumer product to the high-performance storage market. The solutions offer a memory-speed storage device to the users that have been engineered to exponentially accelerate file access.

 

Fusion-io's ioMemory architecture enables development of memory disks with 100 times the capacity density and 10 times the capacity per dollar of dynamic random access memory (DRAM).

 

The architecture is NAND flash-based that brings extremely large memory problems and I/O bound analysis to a new level of cost effectiveness by enabling users to have terabytes of near-memory-speed storage within each node.

 

David Flynn, chief technical officer of Fusion-io, commented that the new ioXtreme will enable the users work on complex 3-D graphics, unzipping and manipulating massive files, even installing a new application, all at the same time.

 

Flynn noted that with the ioXtreme, tasks that would have brought users' systems to their knees are no longer limited by the disks spinning loudly inside the systems.

 

Priced at under $1,000, the ioXtreme will be made available to the users in first quarter of 2009. To know more about Fusion-io and ioXtreme, please visit http://www.fusionio.com.