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I was on the Fusion IO site and was reading up on their ioXtreme PCI solution which gives you storage on a PCI Express card, this might be a brilliant solution for a number of applications, how cool would it be as the storage for your web server? As part of your HPC application in terms of using it as the immediate scratch disk and transferring the legacy data to SAN/local disk? It will be interesting to read up more about it, and when you consider the cost of fibre cards, or even local server drives, it’s not necessarily that expensive? I wonder in terms of energy efficiency how it would compare to say two local drives?

Could we compare performance of say a 3u rack server with local/san storage and one of these cards in a web server solution or database? Having SQL on the card and all the logs/traces on local/san disks? I don’t know, I’ll need to read up more about it.

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