Texas Memory Systems’ recent announcement of their RamSan-20 they have joined Fusion-io in the Flash SSD on a card market. These cards typically retail below $20k for about 400 – 500gb’s of SSD storage. The second is that these cards do not require a SAN, in fact they can’t leverage a SAN. This creates an interesting scenario that we did not address in our State of Solid State Disk presentation. These cards may actually delay and for some customers significantly delay the move to a shared storage environment.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/card-based-ssd-s