Texas Memory Systems introduced its first enterprise eMLC product packing 10TB of storage and Tier-0 performance with 4-8GB/s bandwidth and 320K random IOPS. All of this performance comes packed in a small 1U chassis with power requirements measuring only 250W.
Texas Memory Systems introduced its first enterprise eMLC product packing 10TB of storage and Tier-0 performance with 4-8GB/s bandwidth and 320K random IOPS. All of this performance comes packed in a small 1U chassis with power requirements measuring only 250W.
- The World’s Fastest Storage®: Sustained I/O rates up to 320,000 IOPS for reads or writes and sustained, random bandwidth up to 4 GB/second.
- Fault Tolerant Flash (FTF): The Flash used in the RamSan-810 is enterprise grade eMLC Flash. Each Flash card in the RamSan-810 includes on-board RAID protection to protect against chip failure. In addition, an advanced chip-level ECC provides multiple regions of bit correction per block.
- Series-7 Flash Controller™: One key to the RamSan-810’s uncompromising performance is the Series-7 Flash Controller. Based on high-performance Xilinx FPGAs and a PowerPC processor, the Series-7 Flash Controller is field-upgradable, ensuring that TMS customers will always have the best performance and latest features.
- Variable Stripe RAID (VSR)™: VSR is a patented technology only available to TMS customers that drastically reduces wasted planes. If a plane fails, VSR automatically rebuilds and relocates the data from that plane. It then allows data to be rewritten to the area, dynamically altering the size of the stripe to avoid the failed plane. Under traditional RAID schemes, the entire stripe would have been unusable and all its remaining good planes would have been lost.
- 8 Gbit Fibre Channel: The RamSan-810 comes with new dual ported 8 Gbit Fibre Channel controllers.
- QDR InfiniBand: The RamSan-810 can be equipped with up to two QDR InfiniBand ports.
- Active Spare: One FTF card can be designated as an active-spare that works hand-in-hand with the chip level RAID. If one of the cards experiences a failure that degrades its RAID protection, the system will immediately migrate the data on that card to the hot-spare to return to a fully redundant state.
- Wear Leveling: The RamSan-810 includes wear-leveling technology that protects the underlying Flash media by spreading out writes and maximizing the write life of the system.
- Completely Non-Volatile: Flash memory is inherently non-volatile. Batteries are incorporated into the design anywhere RAM buffers are used with enough power to synchronize the buffers to Flash.
- Unparalleled Scalability: A single 1U chassis upgrades from 2 to 10 TB of Flash storage and two Fibre Channel ports or two InfiniBand ports. Multiple units can be added to meet any capacity or performance requirement.
- Low Power: The RamSan-810 typically uses only 250 watts of power.
The RamSan-810 is available with an 8Gb Fibre Channel or QDR InfiniBand interface and features the TMS Series-7 Flash Controller, an FPGA PowerPC-based chip. The product is rated for a ten-year lifespam with a 50TB/day write workload.
The RamSan-810 scales 40x to 400TB, 160GB/s, and 12.8M IOPS in a 40U rack. Power requirements on this system also scale up to 10KW.
