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| form factor | manufacturer | model | technology | interface | performancemetrics and notes |
| rackmount 4U |
Texas Memory Systems | RamSan-440 | RAM SSD | Fibre Channel | 4,000MB/s random sustained external throughput, 600,000 random IOPS |
| rackmount 3U |
Texas Memory Systems | RamSan-400 | RAM SSD | Fibre Channel InfiniBand |
3,000MB/s random sustained external throughput, 400,000 random IOPS |
| rackmount 2U |
Violin Memory | Violin 1010 | RAM SSD | PCIe | 1 million random IOPS on a single port. 1,400MB/sread, 1,00MB/s write with ×4 PCIe, 3 microseconds latency |
| Solid AccessTechnologies | USSD 320 | RAM SSD | Fibre Channel SAS SCSI |
100,000 random IOPS on a single FC port. Upto320,000 IOPS in a single 2U chassis. 4,000MB/s aggregated bandwidth via 6 FClinks. | |
| rackmount 1U |
Solid AccessTechnologies | USSD 310 | RAM SSD | Fibre Channel SAS SCSI |
Up to 130,000 IOPS in a single 1U chassis.1,500MB/s aggregated bandwidth via 2 full duplex FC links. 10 microsecondslatency. |
| Superior DataSolutions | SpeedStor | Flash SSD | Fibre Channel | Upto 200,000 read IOPS, and 72,000 write IOPS.Aggregate throughput is 800MB/s read 400MB/s writes. (This is the fastestfactory configured 1U flash SSD - but there is no RAID protection for the SSDmodules inside this box.) | |
| EasyCo | 1U 8 drive MFT Appliance | Flash SSD | NAS | Upto 50,000 read IOPS, and 40,000 write IOPS.(Includes internal RAID-5 protection.) | |
| 3.5" | DTS | Platinum HDD 2009 model | hybrid RAM / flash SSD | SATA SSDs | 25,000 R/W IOPS, read speed is 250MB/s, writespeed is upto 240MB/s |
| Curtis | HyperXCLR | RAM SSD | Fibre Channel | 197MB/s sustained read or write, 25,000 IOPS | |
| 3.5" | STEC | ZEUSIOPS | Flash SSD | Fibre Channel | 200MB/s sustained read, 100MB/s sustained write |
| 2.5" | Foremay | SC199 UltraFast V-Series | Flash SSD | SATA | 250MB/s sustained read, 220MB/s sustained write |
| Solidata InternationalTechnologies | X1 Series (preview) | Flash SSD | SATA | 240MB/s sustained read, 220MB/s sustained write | |
| pureSilicon | sampling Q1 2009 | Flash SSD | SATA | 240MB/s sustained read, 215MB/s sustainedwrite. 50,000 read IOPS, and 10,000 write IOPS | |
| Samsung Electronics | shipping Q1 2009 | Flash SSD | SATA | 230MB/s sustained read, 180MB/s sustained write,25,000 read IOPS, 6,000 write IOPS | |
| Toshiba | shipping Q2 2009 | Flash SSD | SAS | 25,000 read IOPS, and 20,000 write IOPS | |
| 1.8" | Toshiba | sampling Jan 2009 | Flash SSD | SATA | R/W speeds upto 240MB/s and 200MB/s respectively |
| 1" | Viking Modular Solutions | SATA Cube | Flash SSD | SATA | Sustained R/W speeds are 110MB/s and 79MB/srespectively |
| PCIe card | Fusion-io | ioDRIVE | Flash SSD | bus | 800MB/s read, 600MB/s write |
| PCI card | Micro Memory | MM-5435CN | RAM SSD | bus | 521MB/s sustained read / write |
| compactPCI card | Vanguard Rugged Storage | cPCI Flash Drive | Flash SSD | bus | 40MB/s sustained read/ write |
| PMC / XMC card | Curtiss-Wright | XMC-550 | Flash SSD | bus | 50MB/s R/ W |
| CompactFlash card | STEC | MACH4 CompactFlash | Flash SSD | bus | 90MB/s read, 55MB/s write |
| ExpressCard | PQI | Flash SSD | bus | 88MB/s read speed, and 48MB/s write | |
| Notes:- allrackmount SSDslisted above include internal data protection (such as RAID or similar) unlessotherwise stated. | |||||
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