Texas Memory Rolls out 1 Million IOPS RamSan

By Greg McNevin

October 31, 2008: Texas Memory has significantly beefed up the performance of its RamSan solid state disk (SSD) system, delivering the first one-million inputs/outputs per second (IOPS) solution.

The company says that its 1M IOPS RamSan-5000 is the fastest Flash memory-based system in the world to go beyond the lab and into the marketplace, and can even scale to deliver several million IOPS using its new Turbo feature.

Faster solid state systems can support more transactions and users with fewer servers and licenses, making them more cost effective than adding large hard-disk based systems, server-based RAM, or expensive application tuning.

Texas says that flash-based SSD systems like its RamSan offer dramatically lower costs and power consumption than previously available.

“We were installing a 20 terabyte one-million IOPS RamSan-5000 at a customer site while other vendors were announcing lab results,” said Woody Hutsell, Executive Vice President at Texas Memory Systems.

“We won the business because the system met strict performance requirements and was determined to be the most cost-effective solution available, today or on the horizon.”

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