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What is the ioDrive™?
The ioDrive™ is the industry’s first, NAND based enterprise storage solution that provides access rates comparable to DRAM with storage capacity on par with disks — being able to improve both memory capacity and storage performance by 100x. The ioDrive™ leverages Fusion-io’s proprietary ioMemory™ architecture to strip away the complexity and limitations of traditional storage infrastructure to provide a high performance, highly scalable Local Storage device or Storage Cache device.
What is ioMemory™?
ioMemory™ (Indexed Object Memory) is Fusion-io’s revolutionary, new architecture that combines today’s higher density NAND with high speed switching and network protocols to effectively eliminate the performance gap between memory and storage. ioMemory™ is the elemental building block of the world’s first high-performance, silicon-based SAN/NAS solution: the ioDrive™.
Can the ioDrive™ be installed into my existing infrastructure?
The ioDrive™ uses a PCIe x4 connector to enable rapid implementation into today’s commodity-off-the-shelf (COTS) servers and workstation configurations that have a PCIe connector. Capable of being installed transparently at multiple points in existing data centers or workstations, the ioDrive™ requires no changes to applications or infrastructure, nor requires complex management software.
What are the advantages of an ioDrive™ versus traditional HDDs?
The ioDrive™ is a silicon based storage solution that eliminates the challenges and concerns associated with mechanical disks (i.e. mechanical, thermal, electrical, performance, availability, etc.). Furthermore, the ioDrive’s™ revolutionary architecture leverages NAND Flash while eliminating the inherent bottlenecks of traditional storage, which enables access rates comparable to DRAM with storage capacity on par with disks. Given its highly scalable architecture, Fusion-io’s new ioDrive™ liberates enterprises from their bloated, under-performing storage equipment.