article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources texas memory systems news newspapers books scholar jstor free images january 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message texas memory systems inc. type subsidiary industry solid state storage digital signal processing founded 1978 headquarters houston texas united states area served worldwide key people holly frost founder products solid state disks digital signal processors parent ibm website ramsan.com flash based rackmount ssd flash based pcie ssd ddr sdram based rackmount ssd texas memory systems inc. tms is a privately held american corporation that designs and manufacturers solid state disks ssds and digital signal processors dsps . tms was founded in 1978 and that same year introduced their first solid state drive 1 followed by their first digital signal processor . in 2000 they introduced the ramsan line of ssds which have evolved through new models available today . based in houston texas they continue to supply these two product categories directly as well as oem and reseller partners to large enterprise and government organizations . 2 3 tms has been supplying ssd products to the market longer than any other company . 4 on august 16 2012 ibm corporation announced a definitive agreement to acquire texas memory systems inc. this acquisition was completed as planned on october 1 2012 . 5 6 contents 1 products 1.1 flash and ram ssds 1.2 dsps 2 references 3 external links products edit flash and ram ssds edit most tms ssds are designed to operate with any compatible system but a few are specifically designed to accelerate oracle applications . they are all part of the ramsan product line . 7 tms produces the following categories of ssds pcie flash memory based drives flash memory based systems flash memory and ram based cached flash systems ram based systems the following are some of tms key storage products product name form factor storage medium max usable capacity gb speed iops latency microseconds bandwidth gb s ramsan 440 8 4u rackmount dram 512 600 000 15 4.5 ramsan 630 9 3u rackmount slc flash 10 000 1 000 000 80 10 ramsan 70 10 pcie slc flash 900 1 500 000 30 2.5 ramsan 710 11 1u rackmount slc flash 5 000 400 000 35 5 ramsan 810 12 1u rackmount emlc flash 10 000 400 000 25 4 ramsan 720 13 1u rackmount slc flash 12 000 500 000 25 5 ramsan 820 14 1u rackmount emlc flash 24 000 450 000 25 4 dsps edit most of the tms dsp products are part of the xp product line . 15 pcie accelerator cards dsp processors references edit klein dean 2009 02 09 . history of digital storage . part 6 the ram ssd and nand . micron . retrieved 2010 07 02 . texas memory systems main website . tms . retrieved 2011 08 01 . texas memory systems . ibm . retrieved 2010 07 02 . kerekes zsolt . texas memory systems . acsl . retrieved 2010 06 05 . ibm announcement . ibm . retrieved 2012 08 17 . tms announcement . tms . retrieved 2012 08 17 . http www.ramsan.com products . tms . retrieved 2011 12 06 . external link in title help ramsan 440 . tms . retrieved 30 september 2011 . ramsan 630 . tms . retrieved 30 september 2011 . ramsan 70 . tms . retrieved 3 april 2012 . ramsan 710 . tms . retrieved 3 april 2012 . ramsan 810 . tms . retrieved 3 april 2012 . ramsan 720 . tms . retrieved 3 april 2012 . ramsan 820 . tms . retrieved 3 april 2012 . http www.ramsan.com products digital signal processing line . tms . retrieved 3 april 2012 . external link in title help external links edit ramsan website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title texas memory systems & oldid 743466369 categories computer storage companiesmanufacturing companies based in houstonibm acquisitionshidden categories cs1 errors external linksarticles with topics of unclear notability from january 2014all articles with topics of unclear notability navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 19 58 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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