New flash storage card may offer a glimpse of the future

Posted by Dennis Sellers Apple ico Oct 3, 2007 at 1:11pm

imageA new flash storage card from Fusion io could make huge storage area networks go the way of the dinosaur and DoDo bird, according to a TG Daily report. However, don’t look for it to happen soon at a price of US$30 per gigabyte.

Fusion io’s upcoming ioDrive combines hundreds of gigabytes of flash storage onto a small computer card. Company officials claim that the tiny card could replace banks of hard drives. But at the current estimated price it won’t happen soon.

The question is: how much will it cost in two years? Remember the first NAND flash chips/capacity price relationships? And that has certainly changed.

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