The amazing part about the new ioDrive is that it delivers read and write speeds of 800MB/s and 600MB/s respectively. If you read previous threads on USB 2.0 technology you will find that even USB 2.0 cannot send data that fast. The ioDrive memory is designed around a revolutionary silicon-based storage architecture known as ioMemory. The ioDrive is the world’s most advanced NAND clustering technology with performance comparable to DRAM and storage capacity on par with today’s hard disks — giving you the power to improve both memory capacity and storage performance by up to one thousand times. The ioDrive dramatically increases performance such that every server can easily contain the I/O performance of the world’s fastest enterprise SAN. The cost of their flagship largest card is a whopping $19,000. Hopefully in time this cost will go down and companies can enjoy the incredible speed boost and safety of this solid state memory technology. In the mean time we are able to enjoy low cost portable custom flash drives that deliver a respectable 30 MB/s transmission speeds.