First IOXTREME Review

[alfaunits]

Did you try to format using the Maximum Write Performance setting? What does it actually do in terms of capacity?
If you did try it, did you try getting the IoXtreme in "surely used" state? (that is, writing several times its REAL capacity over, otherwise, the used state comes at a time when there is still free flash area).

[Spoiler]

Another test I would be very curious to see would be the performance differences between the X58 and P55 chipsets. Now that the PCIe clock is on the CPU for the P55, I heard the latencies are lower.

From this...I wonder if this would have any difference in terms of performance at least synthetic benchmark wise? The only problem with the P55 chipset would be the limited available lanes (16).

[Computurd]

i think that if you puyt a raid card on a p55 you will be suprised with how well it doesnt perform. not sure but with less lanes available i would have a hard time seeing it work well. is the device x8? i know that there have been conclusive tests showing that the x8 restriction on the p55 does in fact hamper performance on video cards, even if not in sli.

[lowfat]

Did you try to format using the Maximum Write Performance setting? What does it actually do in terms of capacity?
If you did try it, did you try getting the IoXtreme in "surely used" state? (that is, writing several times its REAL capacity over, otherwise, the used state comes at a time when there is still free flash area).

This does not exist on the ioXtreme. You can only choose to do this w/ the SLC versions of the Fusion-io's.

[Spoiler]

i think that if you puyt a raid card on a p55 you will be suprised with how well it doesnt perform. not sure but with less lanes available i would have a hard time seeing it work well. is the device x8? i know that there have been conclusive tests showing that the x8 restriction on the p55 does in fact hamper performance on video cards, even if not in sli.

I was referring to his ioxtreme...which is PCIe 4x. That should be no problem. As for a raid card, you may be right, but I haven't tried it. A P55 should allow one PCIe 2.0 16x or two PCIe 2.0 8x. I doubt there is a raid card out there than saturate that.

[alfaunits]

This does not exist on the ioXtreme. You can only choose to do this w/ the SLC versions of the Fusion-io's.

TH was able to make a format with different size on IoXtreme as well.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...sd,2488-9.html
Maybe they just used Fio-format to specify a smaller size instead (i.e. there's no predefined setting).

Anyway, I found on FusionIo forum. The Improved Write Performance capacity is 50% of the max. and Maximum Write Performane is 25% of the max.! (i.e. if you format a 80GB IoDrive/IoXtreme for Improved Write Performance it will only provide 40GB usable space!)

[alfaunits]

I was referring to his ioxtreme...which is PCIe 4x. That should be no problem. As for a raid card, you may be right, but I haven't tried it. A P55 should allow one PCIe 2.0 16x or two PCIe 2.0 8x. I doubt there is a raid card out there than saturate that.

I'm curious what copy speeds you guys can achieve between RAID arrays on the same system? Or between a RAID array and IoXtreme.

I currently have 1680 and 1280ML in the system - 1680 runs 3xX25-M and 1280 runs 4xX25-E. Obviously copying TO X25-M array won't go over 300MB/s because the drives are limited, but the copy from X25-Ms to X25-Es should yield something like.. 500MB/s - well I ain't getting far over 400MB/s either way.
So, please run a simple TC copy (using Big file copy option).

[F.E.A.R.]

TH was able to make a format with different size on IoXtreme as well.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...sd,2488-9.html
Maybe they just used Fio-format to specify a smaller size instead (i.e. there's no predefined setting).

Anyway, I found on FusionIo forum. The Improved Write Performance capacity is 50% of the max. and Maximum Write Performane is 25% of the max.! (i.e. if you format a 80GB IoDrive/IoXtreme for Improved Write Performance it will only provide 40GB usable space!)

Problem is TRIM isn´t mature.
TRIM with Indilinx-SSDs works fine (only with Beta-FWs)

[alfaunits]

There's no TRIM. You prolly mean Garbage collector.

[F.E.A.R.]

There's no TRIM. You prolly mean Garbage collector.

From THG

I/O performance is one of the most important factors when purchasing an SSD. Obviously, the SLC-based ioDrive remains by far the fastest solution, but the new ioXtreme still beats Intel’s latest X25-M G2 with the TRIM feature enabled. The Improved Write Performance setting offers the highest peak I/O performance, while the Maximum Write Performance run secures a higher minimum performance level.

[lowfat]

TH was able to make a format with different size on IoXtreme as well.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...sd,2488-9.html
Maybe they just used Fio-format to specify a smaller size instead (i.e. there's no predefined setting).

Anyway, I found on FusionIo forum. The Improved Write Performance capacity is 50% of the max. and Maximum Write Performane is 25% of the max.! (i.e. if you format a 80GB IoDrive/IoXtreme for Improved Write Performance it will only provide 40GB usable space!)

They did that w/ the ioXtreme Pro, not the ioXtreme.

[alfaunits]

From THG

Ye, X25-M had the TRIM, IoDrive didn't (and does not support it on Windows).

[..::G80::..]

Can anybody run PC Mark 05 HDD tests?

[lowfat]

Well I think my ioXtreme died today. Reboot my machine and it failed to mount. Tried a different PCIe slot same thing.
Getting an 'Attach Failed (internal failure) :wtc:

I guess I am about to see how well Fusion-io's support is.

[NapalmV5]

have u tried another system?

[lowfat]

have u tried another system?

I am about to. Just transferring a few TB of data at the time. Just waiting for it to finish.

[NapalmV5]

you got it like 3/3+ months ago ?

sob! 3 month/1 year warranty ??

[lowfat]

you got it like 3/3+ months ago ?

sob! 3 month/1 year warranty ??

I got it 2-3 months ago, but it does have three years of warranty. Well I was able to reformat the drive on another machine and able to get it working. But I lost my Steam folder and a bunch of other stuff. Guess I'll be keeping a backup of the drive for now on.

[Computurd]

have you noticed any change in the amount of available storage space? that might be an indicator of some type of nand failure. i would rma it just for the hell of it. just to be safe. dunno if they would allow you to rma though considering you have gotten it to work.

[lowfat]

have you noticed any change in the amount of available storage space? that might be an indicator of some type of nand failure. i would rma it just for the hell of it. just to be safe. dunno if they would allow you to rma though considering you have gotten it to work.

Nope. The ioXtreme also does integrity checks every time the computer isn't shut down properly. So I know all the cells are in working order.

[Ao1]

Sorry to hear that but at least it is covered by warranty. Do you think it might have had anything to do with uping the voltage?

[lowfat]

Sorry to hear that but at least it is covered by warranty. Do you think it might have had anything to do with uping the voltage?

I never upped the voltage. Just the PCIe bus. And the data corruption happened when it was @ 100Mhz.

[Ao1]

Hey Lowfat how is the IoXtreme behaving now? I was just looking at the WEI scores and the IoXtreme wipes the floor with random 16 reads. Has there been an update on boot ability?

[lowfat]

Card has been working fine. Besides that one issue of the drive becoming inaccessible, no issues. Still nothing on being able to boot, although I seriously doubt this will ever get fixed.