Texas Memory Selects Toshiba SLC SSDs

Texas Memory Systems Inc. has selected Toshiba‘s 32nm SLC Flash chips for use in its storage products. These chips allow Texas Memory Systems to lower the price of its flagship RamSan-630 by 15%.

Texas Memory Systems’ customers will be the first enterprise solid state disk users to benefit from the performance improvements and cost efficiencies provided by this new generation of chip.

"Texas Memory Systems continually evaluates all major Flash memory suppliers’ product offerings to determine the ‘best of breed’," said Charles Camp, Chief Technology Officer at Texas Memory Systems. "The significant engineering effort put forth to validate the devices is essential in order to guarantee our users receive the best quality and performance from the RamSan."

The new 32nm SLC Flash chips from Toshiba are the smallest and highest density enterprise-grade Flash chips readily available and are compatible with existing Texas Memory Systems’ RamSan-630. The technology allows Texas Memory Systems to maintain the same capacity within the RamSan-630 with fewer components.

The RamSan-630 is a dense, high-performance SLC NAND Flash-based enterprise storage. It is a reliable, rack-mounted solution that provides ten terabytes of shareable, performance storage in a 3U enclosure that consumes only 500 Watts of power. A single RamSan-630 system can replace an entire rack of high-end hard disk drives. Available with 8 Gigabit per second Fibre Channel and Quad Data Rate InfiniBand connectivity, the Texas Memory Systems RamSan-630 is suited for performance-demanding applications such as high performance computing, data warehousing, and batch processing, as well as database operations based on Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.