IBM Flash Memory Breaks 1 Million IOPS Barrier 77
alphadogg writes to tell us that IBM is claiming a victory on the flash storage front. Their new research project "Quicksilver" is claiming data transfer speeds of more than 1 million input/output operations per second (IOPS). "IBM said Quicksilver is two and a half times faster than its own SAN Volume Controller coupled with IBM's DS4700 storage. It would also be two and a half times faster than technology from Texas Memory Systems, which says it has the world's fastest storage with an IOPS rate of 400,000. "
IBM Flash Memory Breaks? (Score:5, Funny)
Then I'm not buying IBM flash memory, end of story.
Yay! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:IBM Flash Memory Breaks? (Score:3, Funny)
Will Farrell called, he wants you to join his club.
Re:Time to market? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh crap, I thought these were Raisin Bran.
Re:It's not a fucking barrier (Score:5, Funny)
Italics look like this. /This/ /just/ /makes/ /you/ /look/ /like/ /an/ /ass/.
Re:Big deal (Score:5, Funny)
It only transfers 640KB per I/O operation, tops.
Well, 640kb should be enough for anybody.
Re:soooooo... (Score:2, Funny)
More importantly, how many Libraries of Congress per lunar month is this?
Re:soooooo... (Score:5, Funny)
How does this translate into normal transfer speed units like MB/s? Otherwise I have no point of reference to tell if I am impressed or indifferent.
All I know is it is fast. This is a huge win in my book. I am really tired of finishing before my standard hard drive can seek out my porn.
Re:soooooo... (Score:1, Funny)
You kidding me? It can make the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs. That's smoke'n
Re:soooooo... (Score:2, Funny)
...using google calculator, 10 TB for a LoC and 640 GB/s.
So... do you measure velocity in furlongs per forthnight?
Re:Big deal (Score:2, Funny)
I am, and it's 610.3515625.
Re:soooooo... (Score:3, Funny)
All I know is it is fast. This is a huge win in my book. I am really tired of finishing before my standard hard drive can seek out my porn.
Why don't you give it a head start?