ViON unveils world's 'largest' flash drive

By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 21:55 IST   |    19 Comments
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ViON unveils world's 'largest' flash drive
Bangalore: ViON, a Washington DC-based systems integrator has unveiled a 100 terabyte (TB) DRAM solid state drive called HyperStor-6200, which the company claims is the largest memory based storage box in the world. The HyperStor-6200 uses Texas Memory Systems' (TMS) RamSan 6200 and Hitachi Data Systems' (HDS) technologies to provide five million inputs/outputs per second (IOPS) with 60GB/second bandwidth. TMS says it has sold it to a single customer and has worked with ViON to do so. ViON calls it an enterprise eFlash product and says the 100TB of capacity has error checking and correction (ECC). Host servers connect to it by either InfiniBand or Fibre Channel. ViON says that this box is optimized for enterprise, research, and government applications, such as large online transaction processing (OLTP) systems or data warehouses, real-time video on demand, graphic rendering, geospatial analysis, seismic processing, and high-speed data acquisition. There is no information about the role of HDS in the sale apart from ViON saying it's involved. There are no details about the pricing but, generally, six figures of IOPS capability often involves six figures of cash. There is no information about the customer either, but ViON specializes in sales to U.S. government agencies.

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