ioDrive by FusionIO

[Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch>]

Hi,

I've recently read about FusionIO [1], a startup promoting a product 
called ioDrive. It attaches a couple of NAND chips to commodity servers 
via PCI Express (x4). They claim reaching much higher throughput and 
lower latency with their device, compared to normal SSDs, which pipe 
their data through SAS or (S)ATA.

The general idea makes lots of sense to me, except that I wish they 
would not only emulate a block device, but also provide an MTD 
interface. (Even if the currently available file systems probably don't 
cope well with the sizes they offer (claiming up to 320 GiB), yet.) (And 
who knows, maybe the hardware would allow it, and one just needs to 
write the drivers?)

The company looks pretty "professional", also in the rather negative 
sense that they don't disclose much information about their product's 
internals. Or does anybody on this list have more information about 
their products? More thoughts or comments?

Regards

Markus

[1]: http://www.fusionio.com/