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Texas Memory Systems Brings RamSan High Performance and High Reliability to eMLC Applications

The new RamSan-810 from Texas Memory Systems provides the densest, highest performing, and highest reliability eMLC Flash storage available today.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

The eMLC RamSan-810 leverages 33 years of Flash expertise, packing 10 TB into a 1U enclosure with 4 GB/s bandwidth and 320K random IOPS. For read-heavy enterprise applications, the RamSan-810 offers Tier-0 performance and reliability at Tier-1 prices.

Texas Memory Systems (TMS), recognized worldwide as delivering The World’s Fastest Storage®, announces today its first enterprise MLC product, the RamSan-810. It brings Tier-0 performance and reliability to Tier-1 read-heavy workloads. The 10 TB RamSan-810 has powerful 8-Gb Fibre Channel or QDR InfiniBand interfaces and dissipates only 250 W.

Reliability of the RamSan-810 is enhanced by the TMS Series-7 Flash Controller™ (FPGA, PowerPC based) that utilizes an advanced error correction algorithm and patented Variable Stripe Raid (VSR) algorithm. VSR automatically bypasses failing chips and is only available from TMS. The RamSan-810 is rated for a 10-year life with a 50-TB/day write workload. With the extra TMS reliability features found in the Series-7 Flash Controller, TMS Flash products simply outlast the competition.

TMS CEO Holly Frost said, “Our entry into the eMLC market with the RamSan-810 is a natural evolution for us and an exciting and significant expansion of our business. Channel partners and users can now go with the undisputed leader in Enterprise Flash solutions for all their needs. The RamSan-810 scales (40x) to 400 Terabytes, 160 GB/s, and 12.8M IOPS within one 40U rack using only 10-KW. Imagine how efficiently your databases will run with this Flash storage configuration.”

Data Warehousing, Content Delivery Networks, Data Acquisition, and Log File Storage are all examples of cost-sensitive applications that will benefit from using the RamSan-810. The high performance of the RamSan-810 allows eMLC users to get a cost-effective solution without sacrificing performance, I/O flexibility, or reliability.

Jim Handy of Objective Analysis said, "Although many applications can use SSDs as a fast tier in a larger array of hard drives, certain applications must maintain the entire data set in fast storage. To get both fast storage and large capacity SSDs, eMLC flash is an excellent option."

Like the SLC RamSan-710, the RamSan-810 provides a completely integrated storage system in a small 1U box. Since the RamSan-810 works like traditional SAN storage, it is quickly installed without the need for special drivers. TMS customers can now choose between the widest range of Flash offerings of any SSD provider: RamSan-710 (SLC, 5-TB), RamSan-810 (eMLC, 10-TB), RamSan-630 (SLC, 10-TB), and RamSan-70 (SLC, 900-GB, PCIe card).

For more information about the RamSan-810, please visit http://RamSan.com/Products/RamSan-810.

Previous RamSan Press Releases of Interest

  • (August 8) TMS Delivers 1,000,000 IOPS in RamSan-70, 450-GB PCIe Card
  • (June 1) TMS Introduces RamSan-710: The Best 1U Storage Ever
  • (May 31) TMS patent enhances reliability and improves MTBF with RamSan products
  • (May 16) TMS Unleashes the 900 GB Gorilla, RamSan-70 PCIe card
  • (May 10) TMS Sets New SPC-1 Performance Record for the Fourth Time [1]
  1. 112,491.34 SPC-1 IOPS, A00028 Texas Memory Systems RamSan-320, http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1#a00028 as of April 5, 2004.
    291,208.58 SPC-1 IOPS, A00063 Texas Memory Systems RamSan-400, http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1#a00063 as of January 28, 2008.
    254,994.21 SPC-1 IOPS, A00085 Texas Memory Systems RamSan-620, http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1#a00085 as of October 27, 2009.
    400,503.26 SPC-1 IOPS, A00105 Texas Memory Systems RamSan-630, http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1#a00105 as of May 10, 2011.

About Texas Memory Systems

Texas Memory Systems (www.ramsan.com) 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 storage.

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