Holy crap, forget this hard drive business, the RAM-SAN 520 (by Texas Memory Systems), which uses SDRAM for storage, provides over 3GB/s of bandwidth, 20µs latency, and 500,000 IOPS! (servicing up to 15 Fiber Channel interfaces simultaneously) I’m not even going to ask what it costs.
Hmm, here’s an announcement for their Tera-RamSan (2 million IOPS):
More details are available at www.superSSD.com. The Tera-RamSan costs $1.6 million, making it a great value for those demanding the best performance in a storage subsystem.
A great value. I’ll take two! 🙂