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..........	Texas Memory Systems Since 1978, Texas Memory Systems has designed, manufactured, and marketed the fastest storage subsystems available. TMS provides solutions that offer the best value and highest performance available in the solid state disk and digital signal processing markets.
	The RamSan line of solid state disks is The World's Fastest Storage®, offering faster I/O and bandwidth performance than any other storage on the market, but with the most reliability features in the solid state disk market.
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RamSan-440 Enterprise Solid State Disk 512GB RAM SSD, 600,000 IOPS from Texas Memory Systems ...	Texas Memory Systems - address and links
	Texas Memory Systems (Corporate Headquarters) 10777 Westheimer, Suite 600 Houston, TX 77042 USA tel:- +1 (713) 266-3200 fax:- +1 (713) 266-0332 url:- http://www.superssd.com US locations - and key contacts	Company profile... 30 years supplying high bandwidth, low latency, I/O-intensive storage. Press releases Solid State Disks - products overview Solid State Disk Success Stories Enterprise SSD Whitepapers TMS FAST (Fast Access Storage Tested ) Partners

see also:- Texas Memory Systems - editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com

• editor's notes:- Texas Memory Systems was the first oem to deliver an SSD product line which includes both RAM SSDs and flash SSDs.
  
  Texas Memory Systems is listed in - the Top 10 SSD Companies (Q4 2008).
  
  In July 2008 - Texas Memory Systems announced the RamSan-440 - a fast 4U rackmount RAM SSD with 512GB capacity and 4Gbps fibre-channel interfaces. It delivers 600,000 sustained random IOPS and over 4GB/S of sustained random read or write bandwidth, with latency of less than 15 microseconds. The RamSan-440 uses RAID protected flash instead of hard disks to backup and restore data in case of a power outage. Data from the RAM SSD can be instantly accessed on power up and the full SSD is restored 20x faster than with hard disk backed RAM SSDs.
  
  In December 2008 - Texas Memory Systems announced it had supplied Santa an SSD system to help accelerate processing of the "Naughty or Nice" lists in time for Christmas.
  
  In January 2009 - Texas Memory Systems announced that its SSD revenue in 2008 had grown 20% compared to 2007, and that it had also achieved record revenue in Q4 (the time when the Credit Crunch iceberg hit the Titanic world economy hard enough for even the 1st class passengers to take pause).
  
  In February 2009 - Network Appliance announced support and interoperation between its Performance Acceleration Module and the RamSan-500 flash SSD systems from Texas Memory Systems.
  
  In March 2009 - Texas Memory Systems unveiled a PCIe SSD that will ship in Q2 2009. The RamSan-20 has 450GB of RAID protected SLC flash with 80 microseconds latency. R/W bandwidth is 700MB/s and 500MB/s respectively. Sustained IOPS are:- 120,000 random read, and 50,000 random write. Endurance is rated at 12 years (assuming 25% continuous writes). List price is about $18,000.
  
  Also in March 2009 - Woody Hutsell, President of Texas Memory Systems - shared his SSD Bookmarks with readers of StorageSearch.com
  
  In April 2009 - Texas Memory Systems announced the RamSan-620 - a 2U rackmount SLC Flash SSD with 2TB ($88,000 list price) to 5TB capacity and 2 to 8 FC or InfiniBand ports. Throughput is 3GB/s. R/W latency is 250µS and 80µS respectively. Transactional performance is 250,000 random IOPS. Power consumption is 325W. Multiple RamSan-620s can scale to higher capacities. Upto 100TB can fit in a single 40U rack.