Texas Memory Intros SSD

July 24, 2008: Texas Memory Systems has introduced what it has dubbed the world's fastest and highest capacity RAM solid state disk: the 512GB RamSan-440.

Texas says the new RamSan features record high performance, record high capacity for a RAM-based system, and a combination of features that help ensure the highest levels of data availability.

The company says the disk is the first non-volatile DDR2 RAM-based solid state disk (SSD) to sustain up to 600,000 IOPS (input/outputs per second), and offer up to 512GB of storage capacity. It also boasts over 4GB/second of sustained random read or write bandwidth, with latency of less than 15 microseconds, and can back up or restore the entire 512GB of data in just six minutes.

Texas says it’s also the first SSD to use RAID NAND Flash memory modules for data backup, enabling “very high transaction volumes and larger numbers of concurrent users with fewer servers, less power, and without excessive application tuning.”

The technology is aimed at the financial, telecom, e-commerce, and online-gaming industries, as well as government, military, and research organisations that require online transaction processing, data warehousing, and batch processing.

“IT managers are seeking faster application performance as they store and interact with larger pools of data within their data centres,” said Jeff Janukowicz, research manager for solid state drives at IDC. “Vendors such as Texas Memory Systems offer innovative storage solutions based on solid state storage to achieve significant performance gains to meet these increasing demands.”

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