Of course, this connection method only pays off when the drive uses top-notch memory chips, and after briefly testing some of Fusion-IO’s products in their lab, I can vouch that they’re using the good stuff.

Other vendors using this approach include OCZ Z-drives and RAMSAN. These cards can push several times more data per second than SATA drives can. Value is especially important given the pricing of solid state drives – more on that in a minute.įusion-IO ioDrives get around this limitation because they’re not SATA drives they plug directly into your server’s much faster PCI Express bus. In order to get your money’s worth out of an SSD, you have to connect it with something faster than SATA. The SATA bus maxes out at around 300 MB/s, and a good SSD can saturate that connection. How fast are SSDs? So fast that good ones overwhelm the capacity of the connection between the server and the drive. Since any bit of memory can be accessed at any time without moving a hard drive’s head around, SSD random access is insanely fast. They use flash memory instead of spinning magnetic platters. r/HomeNetworking - Simpler networking advice.Solid state drives (SSDs) have gotten a lot of press because they can be dramatically faster than magnetic hard drives.

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