Texas Memory Systems Launches Powerful Flash-Based SSD System
RamSan-6200 delivers five million I/Os per second as well as 100 terabytes of 
storage.
Texas Memory Systems has launched its RamSan-6200 product, calling it “the fastest, most reliable, and highest-capacity solid state disk (SSD) system on the market.”
†The RamSan-6200 offers up to 100 terabytes of Flash-based storage in a single 40U rack configuration. Texas Memory Systems claims it can sustain five million input/outputs per second (IOPS), with 60 gigabytes per second throughput, using just over 6 kilowatts of power.
The RamSan-6200 was designed to meet the specific requirements of a customer with extreme performance needs. It combines 20 RamSan-6200 solid state disks in a single datacenter rack, and it uses Texas Memory Systems’ TeraWatch software to provide unified management and monitoring from a single GUI console. The system utilizes enterprise grade Single Level Cell (SLC) Flash as well as multiple levels of RAID and advanced Flash management algorithms to provide extreme reliability.
The manufacturer claims that it would take “several thousand of the fastest, most expensive 15,000 RPM hard disk drives” to achieve an equivalent level of performance with hard disk-based storage arrays.
“The RamSan-6200 is a breakthrough milestone for Flash in the enterprise,” says George Crump, an analyst at Storage Switzerland. “The fact that Texas Memory Systems is delivering a Flash solution that costs less than one-fifteenth of what a hard disk-based solution can deliver on a cost per IOPS basis signals the shift towards Flash as a primary component of mainstream storage.”
According to Woody Hutsell, Texas Memory Systems president, “The RamSan-6200 changes the storage equation for large databases, science and research labs, seismic processing, video, and Federal Government installations,” said Woody Hutsell, President of Texas Memory Systems.
The RamSan-6200 is available now from Texas Memory Systems and its partner network. SIGGRAPH 2009 attendees can visit Texas Memory Systems and see the RamSan-6200 at booth number 2809.
More information about the RamSan-620o is available online at the RamSan Web site.†
