The second generation software, which is compatible with LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260, 9261 and 9280 series controllers, is the industry's first SSD dedicated controller caching technology to offer both read ...

We've used the LSI 9260-8i for the past year to test multiple drive RAID arrays. The choice was pretty clear after testing the 9260-8i against several other hardware RAID controllers since it offered ...

RAID controllers are a lot of things to different people. Some like me, a power user, is able to tune the RAID block size for general use computing, balancing the small file IOPS with large sequential ...

Figure 1. SuperMicroâ s CSE-M28 Mobile Rack fits into two 5.25-in drive bays adding eight 2.5-in hot swappable drive bays. I used Avago Technologies’ LSI MegaRAID 9361-8i (Fig. 2) to control the eight ...

LSI CacheCade technology significantly enhances the I/O performance of hard drive-based system storage by caching frequently accessed, or “hot spot,” data to solid-state drives (SSDs). Dell PERC H700- ...

Lately, the AMI / LSI Logic MegaRAID Elite 1600 and OEM versions from Dell have been very popular amongst SCSI enthusiasts. Unfortunately, many people are complaining about poor write and read ...

The caching of content from disk storage to high-speed memory is a proven technology for reducing read latency and improving application-level performance. The problem with traditional caching, ...

In our last entry we discussed the value of using solid state disk (SSD) as a cache, which provides a simpler on-ramp to the accelerated world of SSD. With SSD cache there are no or limited changes ...