Fusion-IO breaks 1Million IOPs and 6GB/s bandwith in a single SSD

Fusion-IO has announced that they have successfully created a single PCIe based SSD offering record breaking bandwidth. In as recently as 2008, it required an entire server rack in order to achieve such speeds. In 2009, such speeds were obtainable from a single server. And as of today, such speeds are now going to be available in a single PCI-Express based card. Each of the ioDrive Octals is capable of 1 Million IOPS and provides 6.2GB/s of bandwidth and upto 5.7TB of linear-scaling capacity per PCI-Express slot.