{"id":741,"date":"2010-03-03T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/New-hardware-to-play-with-Fusion-io-SSDs.aspx"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:41:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T23:41:26","slug":"new-hardware-to-play-with-fusion-io-ssds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/new-hardware-to-play-with-fusion-io-ssds\/","title":{"rendered":"New hardware to play with: Fusion-io SSDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Christmas comes but once a year&#8230; really? Then mine just came early on this afternoon&#39;s UPS truck. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">The very nice folks at <\/font><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Fusion-io<\/font><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> just sent me two of their fully-loaded top-of-the-line <\/font><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">ioDrive Duos<\/font><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> with 640GB of solid-state flash memory in each. This is really extra-nice of them because on <\/font><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Dell&#39;s Small Business<\/font><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> website they&#39;re currently retailing for $12800 *each*. Expensive? Yes. Worth it? That&#39;s what I&#39;m hoping to prove. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">There&#39;s nothing like expensive, pretty hardware to get me excited&#8230; here&#39;s what they look like: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/3\/iodrive_duo_34_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/> <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Now, above I said &#39;expensive&#39;, and these are, but they pack some pretty amazing specs in terms of read\/write bandwidth so you&#39;re getting a lot of bangs for you bucks. But where does it really make sense to drop the bucks for the biggest bangs? To answer that I&#39;m planning to do a whole series of blog posts as part of my benchmarking efforts to investigate which operations can benefit the most from these drives. With 1.2TB of SSD storage I&#39;ll be able to plug these into one of my test systems here and run comparisons against 15k SCSI and 7.2k SATA drives. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Anyway, there&#39;s a lot of hype about the speed of SSDs, and also a lot of angst about SSDs not being Enterprise-ready.&nbsp;I don&#39;t agree with them not being Enterprise-ready &#8211; in fact, fellow-MVP Greg Linwood, who runs (among other things) our partner company SQLskills Australia, already has a bunch of customers with Fusion-io drives deployed in their enterprises successfully. As with any critical hardware infrastructure (especially cutting-edge stuff like this), the key to success is having everything setup correctly so I&#39;ll be blogging about all my experiences with them.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">To summarize, I&#39;m very excited!<\/font> <font size=\"2\">I&#39;ve been wanting to get my hands on some serious SSD hardware for a couple of years now so I can do some *real* testing &#8211; it doesn&#39;t get better than this!<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Shoot me an email or leave a comment if there&#39;s something you&#39;re interested in seeing tested.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=\"2\">PS Full disclosure: yes, of course Fusion-io sent me these because they&#39;re getting publicity from me blogging about them, but we don&#39;t have any editorial\/veto agreement. I want to be able to recommend these to our enterprise clients and the only way to honestly do that is to play with them myself &#8211; so it&#39;s a win-win for both of us. And you guys get to test them vicariously through me, so it&#39;s a win-win for you too :-)<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=\"2\">Stay tuned&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas comes but once a year&#8230; really? Then mine just came early on this afternoon&#39;s UPS truck. The very nice folks at Fusion-io just sent me two of their fully-loaded top-of-the-line ioDrive Duos with 640GB of solid-state flash memory in each. 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