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Texas Memory Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the World's Fastest Storage, announced today that its RamSan-320 solid state disk achieved new records for performance and price-performance during independent testing by the Storage Performance Council (SPC). The RamSan-320 achieved an SPC-1 I/O per second rate of 112,491.34 and Price-Performance value of $1.50 at a capacity of 68.719 GB. * The Storage Performance Council (SPC) is a vendor-neutral standards body founded to define, standardize, and promote storage subsystem benchmarks as well as to disseminate objective, verifiable performance data to the computer industry and its customers. SPC benchmarks are designed to provide a rigorous, audited and reliable measure of performance. SPC-1 tests emulate typical Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) environments, such as those found in eCommerce and Financial sectors. These results are significant for IT users with performance-intensive applications. "The SPC is pleased that Texas Memory Systems has chosen to produce an SPC-1 result with its RamSan-320 solid state disk system, further demonstrating the applicability of SPC-1 across a broad spectrum of storage technologies and OLTP applications" said Walter E. Baker, Auditor and Administrator of the Storage Performance Council. "SPC benchmarks are designed to provide a fair and robust basis for comparing storage solutions, to assist end users in making storage choices that meet their performance and value needs." Because of its speed, networkability and low cost per IOPS, solid state storage is emerging as the storage of choice for demanding application environments, such as OLTP, Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), databases, modeling and high definition non-linear video editing. Typical users include corporations in the financial, telecom and e-commerce sectors as well as government, research and military organizations. "With these SPC-1 performance and price-performance records coming from Texas Memory Systems, it's easy to understand why Solid State Disk is gaining traction in data centers," said Chuck Standerfer, Senior Partner with storage industry analyst firm, Evaluator Group. " SPC benchmarks are a helpful, independent measure for IT customers who are trying to improve the performance of their application environments and determine their ROI on new storage purchases." The SPC test results are summarized in Texas Memory System's white paper entitled "Increase Application Performance with Solid State Disks" is available online at www.texmemsys.com. *SPC Summary And SPC-1 Benchmark Statement: The RamSan-320 produced an SPC-1 IOPS rate of 112,491.34 and an SPC-1 Price-Performance value of $1.50 at a capacity of 68.719GB. These results used a Data Protection Level of Other Data Protection (Error Correction Code - ECC) and received SPC-1 Submission Identifier A00028. The full disclosure report is available at http://www.texmemsys.com or www.storageperformance.org. Texas Memory Systems: Since 1978, Texas Memory Systems has designed, manufactured, and marketed the fastest storage subsystems available. TMS provides solutions that offer the best value and highest performance available in the solid state disk and digital signal processing markets. More information is available at www.texmemsys.com or by calling 713-266-3200. Solid State Storage Technology: Solid state storage is similar to RAM cache. Unlike hard disk drives it does not use rotating media so data seeks are significantly faster. Because there are no drive heads to crash, solid state disks are also more reliable than typical hard drives. Solid state systems are much more about speed than capacity. They are typically deployed to accelerate demanding applications.