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see also:-
Texas
Memory Systems - editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's comments:- 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
and the Fastest SSDs.
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.
In August 2009 -
Texas Memory Systems launched the
RamSan-6200 a 40U
rackmount SSD
with 100TB of SLC
flash storage, 5 million IOPS performance and upto 60GB/s throughput - which
uses approximately 6kW of power. It's a scaled up system that combines 20x
RamSan-620s in a single
datacenter rack and uses TMS' TeraWatch software to provide unified management
and monitoring from a single GUI console.
In September 2009 -
Texas Memory Systems expanded its IP
base with the acquisition of data management patents and source code from
Incipient. This
technology acquisition
will allow TMS to further differentiate its industry-leading RamSan line of
solid state storage solutions. Incipient developed scalable storage
virtualisation and management capabilities over a period of 8 years. During that
time, the company made significant technological advances and was awarded
multiple patents.
In October 2009 - Some of the technical
folks at Texas Memory
Systems have contributed to a new book called -
Oracle
Performance Tuning with SSDs - written by Oracle expert, Mike Ault.
This is part of an august collection of Oracle tuning books published by
Rampant
Press.
Also in October 2009 -
Texas Memory Systems
announced
that its RamSan-620 - (2U
5TB SLC flash SSD, price $220,000 approx) - has achieved a
record
setting SPC-1 result. It produced 254,994.21 SPC-1 IOPS with average
response time of 0.72mS and at a cost of only $1.13 per SPC-1 IOPS - which is
better than any competing RAID or Flash solution.
In November 2009 -
NextIO entered the
rackmount SSD
market via an oem agreement which leverages multiple
225GB / 450GB PCIe SLC
SSDs made by Texas
Memory Systems.
Available immediately, the
14 slot NextIO
application acceleration appliance can be configured and reconfigured with
any mix of servers and TMS SSD cards depending on system demands. Pricing for a
basic configuration starts at $19,500, which includes implementation, training
and onsite application or database tuning assistance.
In January
2010 -
Texas Memory
Systems announced
it is delivering open source drivers on
Linux and
Solaris for its
RamSan-20
PCIe SSD accelerator.
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| the Top 10 SSD OEMs -
in 2009 Q4 - extracted from main article |
Texas Memory Systems was ranked
#6 - which was the same rank as in the previous quarter.
Texas
Memory Systems has been supplying very high performance solid state storage for
over 30 years.
Their SSDs appeared in my Sun SPARC
Buyers Guide in 1994 -
the same year I
published my first fibre-channel
adapter guide.
Texas Memory Systems highest ranking in
StorageSearch.com's search volume based tables was the #1 slot in 2004 Q3. In
those days that was for any type of storage company - not just SSD oems.
The
company's highest ranking in these top 10 SSD lists was #4 - in
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