A little SAN(??) that goes REALLY fast...

[Kyle Mallory]

A co-worker just shot me this and, of course, I immediately thought... storage for 4k and RAW.

Not sure on the details of availability or price, but I'm sure the info will turn up sooner or later.

http://www.tgdaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34065

 

[Emery Wells]

This is not really viable for video.

Yes it's fast but this product is built more for operations per second than for sustained data rate. This is great for things like databases.

You can bet your ass this thing will be expensive, according to the article $30/GB. So at 640GBs thats over $19,000.

You could get a multi terabyte drive with the same sustained bandwidth for half that.

 

[Mike McCarthy]

Agreed that I/Os per second is Fusion's greatest strength, but it still may have use in the 4K pipeline. It's key characteristic in that regard is that it can be scaled down. The 80GB version should be around $2500 at $30/GB, with the same speed at 160 channels of flash memory. (512MB chips I assume) This isn't much more expensive than a high end Quadro card.
For example a dedicated visual effects artist doesn't need the capacity of a 20+ spindle SAN Raid, but they could benefit from the >800MB/s transfer rate for preview of 4K sequences. For example After Effects could use it in as the disk cache for rendered frames. 4GB RAM gives you 2-3 seconds of preview, 80GB Flash will give you around a minute of uncompressed 4K preview. The source files could be compressed footage on a regular drive, but for shorter shots, everything could be on the Fusion card for faster renders.
Keep in mind that this is still a ways out, Windows drivers are not even expected until mid next year.