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Helmore

1:07 AM on 8 June, 2009

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Can you boot from this drive? As far as I know you still can't boot from their ioDrive, so that makes is pretty useless for the average consumer.

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Rob

1:16 AM on 8 June, 2009

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Looks cool, shame about fatility branding. But are you sure it can used as an os drive, I heard they are not be used as bootable

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Gordon394

1:42 AM on 8 June, 2009

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A fair point guys - I've dropped an enquiry in with Fusion-io.

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EricKolotyluk

3:33 AM on 8 June, 2009

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The first time I talked to the people at FusionID they said they would have a bootable drive in May 2009. I talked to them a month ago and now they're saying closer to the August or September.

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piesforyou

10:51 AM on 8 June, 2009

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Does it matter if you can boot from it? Just point GRUB to it...

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Chris

3:28 PM on 8 June, 2009

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I would be surprised if you couldn't boot to this, for the £560 asking price they can surely afford to include a basic boot ROM that you might find on a £30 SATA card.

The Duo is a different kettle of fish, that's aimed squarely at database servers and SAN machines where the SSD would never be the boot drive.

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b166er

7:46 PM on 8 June, 2009

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"Imagine playing the most intense game, working on complex 3D graphics, manipulating massive files, ripping multiple DVDs and installing a new application -- all simultaneously. The technology is crazy."

As must be the technology that gave Johnathan the extra arms required to do all of the above simultaneously.

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EricKolotyluk

2:41 AM on 10 June, 2009

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From my understanding of the ioDrives, the device driver is similar to a RAID driver. The device is not a disk, and does not even try to emulate a disk. Basically it's a block-IO device like a RAID driver. I would imagine that when they have a bootable version of the device you will have to install it like a third-party RAID driver for Windows.

I'm really looking forward to using one of these drives primarily for boot/reboot performance because Microsoft still have not figured out how to build and operating system that does not need constant rebooting.

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Gordon394

8:09 PM on 21 June, 2009

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Article updated regarding boot functionality. It is coming :)

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