RAID‘Monolithic’ According To Texas Memory

October 18th, 2006: At least when compared to its latest RamSan-300 SSD the company says.

Released earlier this week, Texas Memory says that the RamSan-300 is the first 200,000 IOPS solid state disk with Active Backup, IBM Chipkill and Soft Error Scrubbing technology, and the first to be aimed squarely at SMEs.

Designed to accelerate and protect critical database applications, the company says its new solid-state disk (SSD) enables database managers to increase the number of concurrent users and simultaneous transactions without adding servers, RAM, or monolithic RAID.

Solid state disk systems are designed as performance enhancers, not as data repositories. In this sense, Texas Memory says that the RamSan-300 can sustain 200,000 random IOs per second (IOPS) and 1.5 gigabytes per second of bandwidth, eliminating lag time between processors and stored data.

Texas Memory says that RamSan-300's 16- to 32-gigabytes of DDR-RAM is designed to accelerate performance critical log files and indices of large databases and/or to store a small database. The system includes a new generation of RamSan firmware that supports up to 1,024 LUNs (the highest of any solid state disk).

"User wait times can often be eliminated by simply speeding up an application's log files and indices," says Don Burleson, CEO of Burleson Consulting and co-author of many books on Oracle database performance tuning.

By offering an entry-level SSD device, Texas Memory thinks that more SMEs will be romanced by its speedy storage.

“SMEs have similar needs as larger enterprises when it comes to adding users and boosting the number of transactions their databases can manage,” says Richard Hilken, CEO of Reactive Data, an international data management solution provider. “However, until now medium enterprises struggled to afford the solid state disk technology used by their larger competitors.”

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