Archive For January 2, 2008

100,000 IOPS

FusionIO has released specs and pricing data on their new NAND flash SSD: http://www.fusionio.com/products.html (Lintao Zhang of msft Research sent it my way). 100,000 IOPS, 700 MB/s sustained read, and 600 MB/s sustained write. Impressive numbers but let’s dig deeper. In what follows, I compare the specs of the FusionIO part with a “typical” SATA…

Read more »