alphadogg writes "IBM has claimed a major breakthrough in flash storage, with a research project that's delivering data transfer speeds of more than 1 million input/output operations per second, two and a half times faster than the industry's fastest disk storage. IBM's Project Quicksilver, announced Thursday, combines solid-state flash memory with IBM's storage virtualization technology. Flash storage is starting to catch on with enterprise customers as such vendors as EMC promise faster speeds and more efficient use of storage with solid-state disks. Speeds are typically orders-of-magnitude lower than what IBM is claiming to have achieved. Sun, for example, says it plans to sell 32GB flash drives that deliver about 5,000 or more write-IOPS and at least 30,000 read-IOPS." Link to Original Source
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