Texas Memory System have been impressing us for some time through its assortment of extreme Solid State Drive solutions in the RamSan series. The memory/storage company have released a new storage system breaking a new milestone. TMS’ latest storage solution consists of a 40U rack system offering 100TB total storage capacity, I.e. 100,000GB, using SSD technology. The system is built upon twenty separate RamSan 620 units that is connected through a powerful fiber network.
RamSan 6200 sports performance equal to 5 million IOPS or transfer rates up to 60GB/s, which, according to TMS, you need a RAID configuration consisting of several thousand regular 15,000RPM harddrives to match.
Even if Texas Memory System will charge a pretty penny for this jawdroppingly sweet creation it clearly emphasizes the price/performance advantage of the RamSan solutions.
The fact that Texas Memory Systems is delivering a Flash solution that costs less than one fifteenth of what a hard disk-based solution can deliver on a cost per IOPS basis signals the shift towards Flash as a primary component of mainstream storage.
