What is a PCIe Flash card?

A PCIe Flash card is a solid state storage device (SSD) that plugs directly into the PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect bus) express slots of an individual server. Placing fast, persistent storage near server processors can improve application performance. The RamSan-20 brings solid state storage as close as possible to server CPUs, thus avoiding the latency added by disk and RAID controllers, network protocols, switches, and the additional hardware and software involved in both NAS and SAN configurations. The RamSan-20 incorporates on-board controllers, small amounts of RAM, super capacitors, ECC and RAID data protection, and extra Flash capacity so that it has very little impact on host resources and data is not lost during server crashes or power loss, all while providing hundreds of times faster storage than hard disk drives.