140 TB in one 42U rack!

The RamSan-6300 offers 140 TB of SLC Flash storage and provides 14,000,000 IOPS and 140 GB/sec of sustained, random bandwidth.

The RamSan-6300 is a full rack of RamSan-630 systems.  These multiple systems can be used together to support applications that need more performance or capacity than a single RamSan-630 can provide.

The RamSan-6300 has these key features:

  • Sustained I/O rates of 14,000,000 IOPS
  • Sustained, random bandwidth of 140 GB/sec
  • 70 dual ported 8-Gbit Fibre Channel controllers
  • 70 dual ported QDR InfiniBand controllers
  • Enterprise grade SLC Flash with on-board RAID protection
  • Advanced chip-level ECC circuitry to provide bit correction when needed
  • Wear-leveling technology to extend the life of the system
  • Non-volatile solution

Performance

The key measure of the RamSan-6300's capabilities is its ability to sustain extreme IOPS even with mixed read/write workloads.  Most other hard disk drive (HDD) solutions suffer significant performance degradation from either random access patterns or write accesses.  A RamSan-6300 will deliver better sustained "real world" application performance than any other Flash SSD.

Connectivity

The RamSan-6300 can connect directly to servers or through Storage Area Networks (SAN) using Fibre Channel or InfiniBand interfaces.  By leveraging direct attached and SAN architectures, the RamSan-6300 offers some important advantages, such as:

  • Shareability
  • Redundancy
  • Ability to provision the exact SSD capacity that an application requires
  • Centralized management.

Reliability

In order to meet enterprise reliability requirements, the RamSan-6300 includes three layers of Flash memory protection.  The first layer is an ECC circuit that detects and corrects single bit errors.  The second layer is the use of a modified RAID-5 algorithm to ensure that the failure of a Flash memory chip does not result in data corruption.  The third layer, Active Spare, protects against a card failure. 

For more information, read the complete In-depth Look at the RamSan-6300 paper.

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