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IBM tested 4 terabyte (flash memory) solid-state drives

It’s feasible that we could get it commercialized within 12 months,” said Charlie Andrews, director of product marketing for IBM systems storage. “Right now we have a screaming (fast) system, but there’s more work to be done in terms of long-term reliability and integration with systems applications. We don’t want to get distracted with ‘push the hardware.’ We want to focus on the solution piece first,” he said.

IBM coupled solid-state drives with its storage virtualization technology to achieve a sustained data transfer rate of more than 1 million input/output per second (IOPS), with a response time of less than one millisecond in a 4.1-terabyte rack of SSD storage. SSDs are being supplied by Fusion-io.

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