Fusion-IO as a gaming drive?

[Alexdi]

I'm looking at a listing for a 640GB Fusio-IO MLC IoDuo:

Fusion-IO 640GB MLC IoDuo PCI-Express Flash Drive SSD Storage Accelerator | eBay

It's priced well for the performance. I'd like to use one as a Steam target drive for game installations with Windows 10 x64. This would be in a friend's system; I don't want to have to troubleshoot it after the initial installation / firmware update. Is this is a bad idea?

 

[i386]

This is the duo version, they require more power for full performance and cooling (the latter one can become a problem in a desktop chassis!).
Other than that it's like a normal block device, you can do what ever you want with it. I use my iodrive2 for downloads (17pb write endurance ftw ), some lightweight vms in vmware workstation and storage for video encoding.

 

[Alexdi]

Nice. I was concerned mostly about getting drivers for Windows 10. Also, this system will have OSX on another drive for a dual-boot. Any idea if the drive will work in that environment?

 

[i386]

There are drivers available on sandisk website, but I have no idea if they support the newest version of mac os.