Comment Re:For about $900 (Score 1) 110
You are uninformed. The drives are fast enough that they hit the cap for a single SATA connection.
Here's a review of 16 Intel drives in raid-0
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-6gb-raid,2388.html
Its not quite 1600% faster but its about 1300% faster than the peak transfer rate of a single SATA connection.
Then again.. if you really wanted performance for cheap, you could get 8 of the new 40 gig Kingston (intel based) drives and raid-0 them for the same price as the Fusion ioXtreme card. I'd challenge someone to come up with a better performance solution for ~$900
Note: I have no idea if there is an 8 port hardware raid 0 card available anywhere that can do 1.5GBps but if there is, I'd love to see it. Software raid-0 should still beat the pants off the fusion drive.