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SSD ad - click for more infoThis archived page (below the line)
shows details of the RamSan-70
a fast enterprise PCIe SSD launched
in May 2011 - as it looked here
on StorageSearch.com in early 2012.

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Editor:- April 12, 2013 - some strategic models in TMS's RamSan SSD family have migrated into similarly numbered models in IBM's FlashSystem product line. But not all are currently being marketed in this way.

What happened to the RamSan-70 and related TMS IP in PCIe SSDs? IBM EOLed this product line. As we learned later - they had other plans for server based SSD acceleration as they were a collaborator in the needs requirements for memory channel SSDs.


Editor:- October 1, 2012 - IBM today announced it has completed its acquisition of Texas Memory Systems.
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Texas Memory Systems RamSan-70 Texas Memory Systems designs and builds solid state storage systems for accelerating essential enterprise applications. The award-winning RamSan product line, known as "The World's Fastest Storage®," delivers fast, reliable, and economical solutions to a broad base of enterprise and government clients worldwide. Founded in 1978, Texas Memory Systems continues to architect and engineer the future of solid state disk (SSD).

RamSan accelerated systems can manage extremely high transaction volumes and allow IT managers to add concurrent users without the expense of new servers, software licenses, server-based RAM or monolithic hard disk-based RAID storage.

RamSan solid state storage products come in a variety of performance, capacity, configuration, and cost options.

The RamSan-70 is a very fast, very affordable, Flash-based solid state disk that connects directly into the half-length PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect bus) express slots in most servers. It brings solid state storage as close as possible to the CPU, minimizing the latency added by hard disk and RAID controllers, network protocols, switches, and the additional hardware and software involved in both NAS and SAN topologies.

RamSan-70 highlights:
  • 450 to 900GB SLC Flash storage (usable)
  • 600,000 read IOPS and 250,000 write IOPS
  • 2GB/s read bandwidth and 1.4GB/s write
  • latency - 30 µs
  • 8 PCI Express Lanes

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Editor:- March 27, 2012 - Texas Memory Systems has introduced a new fast-enough MLC PCIe SSD into its product line as part of an SSD ASAP / caching bundle which includes software from NEVEX The new RamSan-80 eMLC PCIe SSD provides 450GB usable capacity, 700 MB/s throughput and 80K / 170K R/W IOPS.
The RamSan-20 and RamSan-10 (below) are the full-length PCIe SSDs that preceded the faster, higher capacity, half-length RamSan-70 (above).
Texas Memory Systems RamSan-20 Texas Memory Systems designs and builds solid state storage systems for accelerating essential enterprise applications. The award-winning RamSan product line, known as "The World's Fastest Storage®," delivers fast, reliable, and economical solutions to a broad base of enterprise and government clients worldwide. Founded in 1978, Texas Memory Systems continues to architect and engineer the future of solid state disk (SSD).

RamSan accelerated systems can manage extremely high transaction volumes and allow IT managers to add concurrent users without the expense of new servers, software licenses, server-based RAM or monolithic hard disk-based RAID storage.

RamSan solid state storage products come in a variety of performance, capacity, configuration, and cost options.

The RamSan-20 is a very fast, very affordable, Flash-based solid state disk that connects directly into PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect bus) express slots in a server. It brings solid state storage as close as possible to the CPU, minimizing the latency added by hard disk and RAID controllers, network protocols, switches, and the additional hardware and software involved in both NAS and SAN topologies.

RamSan-20 highlights:
  • 450GB SLC Flash storage
  • 120,000 IOPS
  • 700 MB/s random sustained external throughput
  • ECC and RAID
  • Embedded CPU controller.

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Texas Memory Systems RamSan-10 The RamSan-10 is similar to the RamSan-20 above - but instead has 225GB capacity.

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