Notre confrère anglophone Dvnation nous propose un test du Fusion-IO IODrive 80GB Solid State Drive (SSD).

Ses performances sont à la hauteur et dépasse même tous les autres SSD répertoriés dans se comparatif...

" The wait is finally over.  Fusion-IO has brought their first product to market and it appears as single-handedly revolutionized the storage market: The ioDrive (already available here).  DV Nation was the first company to sell nothing but Solid State Drives (SSDs).  We have done more testing than any another establishment and felt compelled to give a review.  The typical SSD is a collection of nand flash chips (typically from Samsung, but could also be another vendor such as Hynix) combined with a controller and SATA or IDE interface.  An SSD has no moving parts, no spinning drive heads, emits no noise.  The onboard flash memory is non-volatile, meaning that it retains data when you power down the computer.  While the best hard drives have an access time (time to find your requested chunk of data) of about 8 milliseconds (ms), an SSD has an access time of less than 1ms.  Usually less than .2 of a millisecond.  An SSD with the popular SATA connector is limited to SATA's bandwidth of about 300MB/S, and even fast SSDs currently achieve "only" 120MB/S read and write...."

 

 

 

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Source : Dvnation