On Apr 21, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Frank Middleton wrote: > On 04/20/10 11:06 AM, Don wrote: > >> Who else, besides STEC, is making write optimized drives and what >> kind of IOP performance can be expected? > > Just got a distributor email about Texas Memory Systems' RamSan-630, > one of a range of huge non-volatile SAN products they make. Other > than that this has a capacity of 4-10TB, looks like a 4U, and consumes > an amazing 450W, I don't know anything about them. The iops are > pretty impressive, but power-wise, at 45W/TB even mirrored disks > use quite a bit less power. But 500K random iops and 8GB/s might > be worth it if the specs are to be believed...
They have been around for a long time and have a good track record in important markets. They do not cater to the home/hobbiest market. -- richard ZFS storage and performance consulting at http://www.RichardElling.com ZFS training on deduplication, NexentaStor, and NAS performance Las Vegas, April 29-30, 2010 http://nexenta-vegas.eventbrite.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
