Fusion-IO ioDrive2 1.2tb - $240+$13 shipping

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Fusion-IO ioDrive II MLC Flash 1.2TB Solid State PCIe 2.0 F00-001-1T20-CS-0001 | eBay
Edit: Price just droped from $295 to $240.

Listed as Seller refurbished, “GRADE A UNIT”

5 available as of now. $240 BIN, no best offer. Shipping shows $13.26 for me in NY. Save for the shipping, just about the best price I've seen on this drive recently. Worth checking your spam/ebay messages, as well, as they rolled out a 10% ebay bucks promo today that one of my accounts got, so could make a bit cheaper.

Patrick's thread has some useful info on these if you're unfamiliar.

Enjoy.

 

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Price just dropped from $295 to $240. This is now the best price I've seen on these.

 

[GladLock96]

All gone

 

[BackupProphet]

That was a truly awesome deal!

 

[dwright1542]

As much as I like FIO cards, the driverless LSI Nytro cards that pop up from time to time are killer.

 

[nk215]

As much as I like FIO cards, the driverless LSI Nytro cards that pop up from time to time are killer.

Nytro cards also reach max performance within the 25 watt of PCIe 2 spec. Fusion-io card needs an wattage overwrite to each max performance.

 

[workingnonstop]

Are the Nytro cards bootable? I have a couple of those on their way to me, as well.

 

[nk215]

no, Nytro cards are not bootable. They are called application Accelerator because of that.

 

[Geran]

Are the Nytro cards bootable? I have a couple of those on their way to me, as well.

No

 

[nk215]

I received my Fusion-io. it's not the 1.2TB as listed on ebay. It's a 365GB. Contacting the seller to get thing sorted out.

 

[workingnonstop]

I haven't tested mine yet... looks right, but not installed. Does the 365gb version look different?

Seller listed another unit for same price here: Fusion-IO ioDrive II MLC Flash 1.2TB Solid State PCIe 2.0 F00-001-1T20-CS-0001 | eBay

 

[Geran]

That drive in the picture is a 365gb version as there are eight blank chips. You can tell in the picture they are blank compared to the first four.

 

[workingnonstop]

Interesting, thanks. Mine has print etched on all the chips, so hopefully correct!

 

[Geran]

Interesting, thanks. Mine has print etched on all the chips, so hopefully correct!

the blanks are plastic so you could tell very easily if you have a real 1.2tb drive or a fake one

 

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Gone... thanks to whoever saved me from ordering another one

 

[acquacow]

Nytro cards also reach max performance within the 25 watt of PCIe 2 spec. Fusion-io card needs an wattage overwrite to each max performance.

The 365/785/1.2TB ioDrive IIs all hit max specs within 25W.

It's the ioDrive Duos (2 cards on one carrier) that require double that and exceed the pci-e 2.0 power spec. They come with additional power cables so that you can add that power if your slot can't support it.

The ioDrive II duos work just fine w/o additional power in pcie 3.0 slots that support up to 75W per card, but you may still need the power override command if the driver can't read the slot power information from the BIOS.

 

[BackupProphet]

Fusion IO2 1.3TB steal deal!
Fusion-iO ioDrive SSD Accelerator Drive 1.3 TB with bracket (Enterprise SSD) | eBay

Keep in mind this one is PCIe 4x and not 8x. Iops should be similar though

 

[acquacow]

Neat, rare to see those pop up on ebay. Those were prototype drives that were never sold as a product. I'm not sure what drivers they are compatible with.

All of the ioDrive 2s are pcie- 2.0 x4 electrically, even though the connector on the production ones is a x8.

 

[lowfat]

The 365/785/1.2TB ioDrive IIs all hit max specs within 25W.

The ioDrive II duos work just fine w/o additional power in pcie 3.0 slots that support up to 75W per card, but you may still need the power override command if the driver can't read the slot power information from the BIOS.

How does the ioScale compare to the ioDrive? As it absolutely benefited from raising the power limit to 75W. Write benchmarks were 30% higher and small file low queue depth reads increased as well.

 

[acquacow]

How does the ioScale compare to the ioDrive? As it absolutely benefited from raising the power limit to 75W. Write benchmarks were 30% higher and small file low queue depth reads increased as well.

Depends on which year you have, but in most cases, they are identical, just with different over-provisioning (which is user adjustable on all drives).

You can totally buy an ioScale, change the over-provisioning to the same as an iodrive and they will perform identical.

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