Do you find your current hard drive a little slow, or have you upgraded to an SSD but find yourself lacking in a little capacity? Why not invest or rather re-mortgage and install this 900GB TMS RamSan-70 SSD monster into your system.
The TMS RamSan-70 “Gorilla” SSD is equipped with 900GB of high-speed SLC NAND flash onto a single half-length PCIe card, and is the is the first product powered by Texas Memory Systems’ new Series-7 Flash Controller. With sustained I/O rates up to 330,000 IOPS (at 4K block sizes) for reads or 160,000 IOPS for writes, and bandwidth up to 2 GB/second.
The new RamSan-70 SSD is based on high-performance Xilinx FPGAs and a PowerPC processor. The Series-7 Flash Controller handles all Flash management functions without impacting the host CPU.
The 900GB SSD incorporates patented Texas Memory Systems reliability technology, providing an expected lifespan of around 6-10 years. Unfortunately no information on pricing or worldwide availability has been released as yet, but as soon as it becomes available we will let you know.
More information on this beast of an SSD drive can be found on the TMS website.
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