Texas Memory Systems Delivers Open Source Drivers on Linux and Solaris for the RamSan-20

Texas Memory Systems, a dealer in solid state devices, has announced that it is delivering open source drivers on Linux and Solaris for the RamSan-20. The drivers are purported to provide economical, high performance PCIe Flash storage.

The RamSan-20 is a PCIe flash-based solid state disk (SSD) storage product for accelerating workstations and servers. RamSan-20 users will benefit from these open source drivers by having additional control and adapting future requirements. The open source community will expand the deployment of PCIe SSDs into appliances using embedded Linux.

The company claims that it is empowering customers to easily port to custom kernels, currently unsupported operating systems, and add custom enhancements.

PCIe Flash SSDs are the alternatives to disk drivers for performance dependent applications. These flash SSDs are preferred by large enterprise, government, military and research firms to enhance applications and act as an alternative to adding servers, RAM (News - Alert) and RAID storage systems.

According to the company, RamSan PCIe SSD design is based on the open source drivers, RamSan PCIe card’s core functionality resides in the hardware itself where as in the case of other PCIe designs the driver does most of the work. The driver offers a simple control paradigm and is easy for portable and manipulate as open source. It makes less strain to the host system by making a nice division of delegation between the host and the storage device, allowing the host system to operate to its maximum strength.

In a release, Woody Hutsell, president at Texas Memory Systems, said the latest round of driver development displays the company’s ongoing commitment to its thought-leadership position within the enterprise market for Flash solid state disk designs. He said this is the type of innovation that the company has been delivering for over 30 years -- and they view their depth of knowledge and engineering expertise as a value that clearly continues to separate them from the pack in delivering value to their customers.

In related news, OPERA by Texas Memory Systems recently boosted Oracle’s (News - Alert) productivity -- and Texas Memory Systems recently unveiled a 400MB/s entry-level SSD.