Texas Memory Systems makes storage faster

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/5/prweb529384.htm

Houston, TX (PRWEB) May 30, 2007 — Texas Memory Systems, Inc., makers of the World’s Fastest Storage®, announced that IC Source, Inc., a major clearinghouse for electronic components, has accelerated its SQL Server database with a RamSan solid state disk to give over 3,000 customers instant access to 40 million inventory records.

IC Source brings over 3,000 buyers and sellers of electronic components together online. The company lists over 40 million inventory items, many of which become obsolete after a limited shelf life. Ensuring that component inventory data is accurate and up to date is the key to helping customers pinpoint the best deals. Therefore, real time inventory data is core to IC Source’s business.

…Conventional hard disk drives cannot deal with the simultaneous read and write access requests required by IC Source. 70,000 inventory line items might need to be written to the database while users need read access to search and view available inventories at the same time. A solid state disk, not a hard disk solution was required.

Solid state disks allow IT managers and database administrators to increase the number of concurrent users and simultaneous transactions without adding servers, RAM, or monolithic RAID. IC Source installed a single RamSan-400 solid state disk from the market leader, Texas Memory Systems. The RamSan-400 used by IC Source can deliver 400,000 I/Os per second, 3,000 megabytes per second of bandwidth, and sub-15 microsecond response times compared to above 5 millisecond response times for disk-based RAID systems. With the RamSan solid state disk, IC Source immediately saw a 400% performance improvement in their database…

Check out this article, it talks all about Texas’ solid state storage solution, as the article suggests, this will be great for high performance computing solutions such as a database or maybe a data caching solution for grid/HPC?