ability to withstand extreme shock, vibration and temperature ranges. BiTMICRO made a number of introductions and announcements in 1999 around flash-based SSDs including an 18&nbsp; gigabyte 3.5&nbsp;in SSD. Fusion-io announced a PCIe-based SSD with 100,000&nbsp; input/output operations per second (IOPS) of performance in a single card with capacities up to 320&nbsp;gigabytes