Texas Memory Systems Reaches 291,208.58 SPC-1 IOPS and Average Response Time of 0.86ms
On its RamSan-400 solid state disk
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on January 29, 2008 at 4:03 pmTexas Memory Systems, Inc., producers of The
World’s Fastest Storage, today announced that it has broken the world
data storage performance record and the data storage price-performance
record again. The new records were achieved using standard server and
storage network hardware and the Texas Memory Systems RamSan-400 solid
state disk (SSD) – a device used by IT departments to increase the
speed of their enterprise applications in order to accommodate more
transactions and users.
Based on audited results submitted to the vendor-neutral Storage
Performance Council (SPC), the Texas Memory Systems RamSan-400 solid
state disk delivered a record 291,208.58 SPC-1 IOPS (input/output
requests per second) with a record average response time of just 0.86
milliseconds*. The RamSan-400 also established a new SPC-1
Price-Performance record by delivering that performance at just $0.67
per SPC-1 IOPS.
"Texas Memory Systems is to be congratulated for its use of the
industry-standard SPC-1 benchmark to validate the world record
performance and price-performance of the RamSan-400," said Walter E.
Baker, Administrator of the Storage Performance Council. "This
outstanding SPC-1 Result further illustrates the applicability of SPC
Benchmarks to measure and compare a wide range of storage products
including innovative solid state storage systems such as the
RamSan-400."
"This SPC Result demonstrates that when a firm needs better
application performance, they cannot get faster storage or a lower cost
per IOPS than they can with the RamSan solid state disk," said Woody
Hutsell, executive vice president at Texas Memory Systems.
"Additionally, enterprises will no longer need to purchase and maintain
surplus hard disk capacity just to get higher performance."
Texas Memory Systems used "white box" servers with 4GB of memory to
operate the SPC-1 benchmarking application. QLogic QLE2462 host bus
adapters and SANbox 5600 fabric switches were the only SAN elements.
CIOs in the financial, telecom, e-commerce, and online-gaming
industries, as well as government, military, and research
organizations, strategically use solid state disk to accelerate
database-centric applications, such as those used for online
transaction processing (OLTP), high definition video-editing, data
warehousing, and rendering, because software applications running on
solid state disks can accommodate more concurrent users and more
simultaneous transactions.
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