A mobile phone with 640gb removable drives?

I’ve been taking a look at Fusion IO, the company behind the new ioDrive PCI cards capable of storing up to 640gb of data. They’re due to become available to retail in the first quarter of 2008 and prices are touted at about $30 per gig. Fair enough, everything’s always really expensive when it hits the marketplace.

However I was extrapolating in my head. It won’t be long until that kind of technology can be integrated, affordably, into your standard desktop PC… or mobile handset. Although hopefully network capacities will be good enough by that point to avoid requiring local storage of data.

More below…

Link: 4sysops – ioDrive: 640 GB flash card almost at the speed of DRAM – The end of hard drives?

– ‘io” stands for ‘indexed object memory”
– ioDrive is based on NAND technology
– Data rates: 800 MB/sec (read), 600 MB/sec (write). [SATA hard drives support up to 90 MB/s, and PC2-6400 DRAM – 6.4GB/s]
– Fusion-io will offer ioDrives in the following capacities: 80GB, 160GB, 320GB and 640GB.
– ioDrive uses a PCI x4 connector
– Retail prices will be about $30 per GB