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RamSan-10/20
Overview
The RamSan-10 and the
RamSan-20 are both high performance Flash SSDs on a PCI card. This
family of SSD products establishes the reference standard in PCI
Flash architectures with industry leading sustained performance,
reliability, and density. Their simplicity and affordability bring
high performance storage solutions within reach of mainstream businesses
and applications. The RamSan-10 and the RamSan-20 display TMS' unique
ability to architect and engineer the future of solid state storage,
leveraging over 30 years of SSD innovation and 10 years of PCI bus-based
architectural expertise.
Both product designs leverage the power of Texas Memory Systems’
Fault Tolerant Flash (FTF) architecture. Because of their comprehensive
on-board management suite, the RamSan-10 and the RamSan-20 have
little to no impact on host resources and data is not lost during
server crashes or power loss. The RamSan-20 is the highest capacity
enterprise grade PCIe SLC Flash product on the market and provides
far better sustained performance and reliability characteristics
than competing products. The RamSan-10 is ideally optimized for
applications requiring extraordinarily low latencies at smaller
capacity points such as those run on scientific workstations or
stand alone servers.
Both cards are easily installed in a server to transfer data much
faster than other Flash drives and hundreds of times faster than
traditional mechanical hard disks. They allow users to simply snap
in an extraordinarily fast SSD for caching, application acceleration,
and ruggedness without the space, power, and management overhead
associated with traditional storage expansion.
The RamSan-10 and the RamSan-20 offer a simple, economical choice
for accelerating single-server applications that require large,
fast buffer areas and those that are random access intensive. Databases,
video editing, financial modeling, data acquisition, simulations,
and Web content are a select few examples of applications that will
benefit from the use of both of the cards' remarkable capabilities.
Features
• A storage system on a PCI card
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Low
overhead, high performance
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High
IOPS, bandwidth, and capacity
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Low
power requirements
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ECC
and RAID
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Embedded
wear-leveling PowerPC
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Quick
and easy to install
Details
The RamSan-10 and the RamSan-20 both deliver a complete storage
system on a PCIe card. They minimize latency between processors
and storage and are easily installed in minutes. The RamSan-10 delivers
225GB of usable Flash, making it an ideal design for those applications
that require extremely low latencies at a smaller capacity. The
RamSan-20 delivers 450GB of usable Flash, making it the highest
capacity enterprise class PCIe SLC Flash card on the market today.
To ensure the greatest possible performance and reliability, these
cards both utilize Single Level Cell (SLC) Flash. And both also
incorporate extra Flash capacity for write acceleration and two
levels of data protection, ECC and RAID.
The RamSan-10 and the RamSan-20 both offer unparalleled sustained
performance, delivering 120,000 IOPS for random read operations.
With their fast PCIe connection, the RamSan-10
and the RamSan-20 have a direct low-overhead connection to main
memory that eliminates disk controllers, disk cables, and disk chassis.
CPU
One of the single greatest assets the RamSan-10 and the RamSan-20
possess is the use of an onboard CPU. With an onboard processor
to manage the Flash memory functions, these cards stand head and
shoulders above the rest in the PCI Flash SSD market. Their design
limits the theft of CPU cycles or RAM space from the host system,
thus allowing the host system to do its core job of processing and
managing application requests and needs.
SLC
The RamSan-10 and the RamSan-20 use SLC NAND Flash for the storage
medium. SLC is superior in almost every way: faster, more resilient,
and much easier to manage than its consumer counterpart, MLC.
Manageability
The RamSan-10 and the RamSan-20 are easy to install, easy to manage
block level devices. Once their driver has been installed, they
appear as a standard block device. At this point the products may
be partitioned and formatted to a file system, not unlike any other
enterprise hard disk drive arrangement.
Automatic Error Checking
Storage data integrity is provided by the use of SLC Flash chips
with two independent methods of ECC. Each Flash chip incorporates
an ECC data field within the chip for initial checking. Additionally,
each Flash controller on the RamSan-10 and the RamSan-20 is responsible
for 10 and 20 Flash chips respectively in RAID-5 configuration,
thereby eliminating any single chip failure from corrupting data
storage. The Flash wear-leveling algorithm runs on the embedded
PowerPC, providing real-time quality assurance independent of the
host computer.
Fault Resilient
The RamSan-10 and the RamSan-20 were designed from the chip up with
the enterprise in mind. With their onboard processor design, 2 levels
of error correction coding, RAID functionality for the Flash, use
of SLC Flash, and a sophisticated wear leveling algorithm, the RamSan-10
and the RamSan-20 are both truly enterprise ready, fault resilient
PCIe SSDs.
PEP
The RamSan-10 and the RamSan-20 provide extraordinary performance
while typically consuming a very modest 15 watts of power. Being
this powerful yet Earth friendly can only be described using one
word, PEP - Powerful, Efficient Performance. At 120,000 sustained
IOPs and only 15 watts, the RamSan-10 and the RamSan-20 both deliver
8,000 sustained read IOPS per watt drawn.
Product Specifications
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Storage:
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• Capacity: 450 GB
• Storage Medium: SLC Flash |
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Performance:
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Maximum Bandwidth: 700 MB/s
• Read IOPS: 120 K IOPS
• Write IOPS: 120 K IOPS |
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Interface:
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PCIe Lanes: 4 lanes |
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Power:
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Typical Power Consumption: 15 W |
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Mechanical:
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Form Factor: PCIe (x4) |
For additional information, options and pricing about our ThinkCP™ products,
please contact our sales representatives - (800)726-2477
or
email - SalesDesk
AT ThinkCP.com
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