Storage devices reach 600 times the speed of hard drives

TMS, the maker of US SSDs, has just launched a new product called RamSan with the fastest access rate in the world today. This drive is designed to work with InfiniBand server clustering technology.

Data on RamSan is accessed via InfiniBand transmission line (10 Gbit / sec speed), ensuring the requirements in high-performance calculations and the US government claims to use RamSan for Echelon's national intelligence system. .

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RamSan has access speed of 15 milliseconds, 250 times faster than current hard drive. A hard drive also usually provides 250-300 I / O per second (I / O: Input / Output - import), while the RamSan drive works on InfiniBand technology to bring up to 50,000 I / O / sec.

Greg Schulz, research analyst with StorageIO, thinks that high-speed SSD solid-state disk storage with InfiniBand connectivity will enable businesses to upgrade their data centers to address the situation. ' bottleneck 'during the import / export of information.

San Diego Computer Center (USA) has replaced the hard drive with TMS RamSan SSD device, so the data backup rate has increased by 38 times.