640GB Fusion-IO IBM Brand $235

[MiniKnight]

This one might be a good deal https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FF3UOIY

$229+ 5 shipping.

Cheapest on ebay for the low profile card is $297 AP1-004-640-CS-0001 FUSION-IO 640GB PCI-E X 4 MLC IO-DRIVE

I mean... if you have an Atom C2750 or C2758 ESXi host, or like a xeon e3 one... its almost down to 0.30/GB for a fast drive. Only hesitation is IBM brand but the M1015's from this era work in everything.

 

[Kaishi]

I mean... if you have an Atom C2750 or C2758 ESXi host, or like a xeon e3 one... its almost down to 0.30/GB for a fast drive.

Can you explain? Why not use these with a different processor? I have some Opteron systems, wouldn't these work with them too?

 

[MiniKnight]

@Kaishi sorry about being confusing. The C2000 only has PCIE 2.0 and these are PCIE 2.0 cards. The older E3's had PCIE 2.0 slots as well. I don't have any Opteron systems but I'd believe they would be good as well.

 

[Kaishi]

@Kaishi sorry about being confusing. The C2000 only has PCIE 2.0 and these are PCIE 2.0 cards. The older E3's had PCIE 2.0 slots as well. I don't have any Opteron systems but I'd believe they would be good as well.

Right on. So they're a good choice for AMD offerings as well.

My ZFS-based storage server needs an L2ARC, and I'm guessing this would work quite well.

 

[damienr]

Kaishi, FusionIO may not easily work with BSD offerings (ie FreeNAS) - just FYI in case that pertains to you

 

[Kaishi]

Kaishi, FusionIO may not easily work with BSD offerings (ie FreeNAS) - just FYI in case that pertains to you

Thanks for the heads up! I'm running on Illumos (Solaris-type) ZFS at this point (specifically OpenIndiana 151a9, but intending to move to OmniOS or otherwise something else). Do you know if there's support for FusionIO in Illumos?