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April 12, 2023

Our previous blog post was all about sequential load. In this article we are going to talk about small block size workloads.

March 24, 2023

The following is a guide on how to monitor performance and estimate CPU usage when running the xiRAID engine. It’s crucial to monitor performance as it helps determine the additional resources required to run the software, which can impact the overall cost of the solution.

February 14, 2023

ZFS is a popular file system that has managed to step far beyond the workstation and is actively used both in server solutions and for creating storage systems and specialized devices. This is due to the rich functionality and flexibility inherent in the solution architecture.

January 30, 2023

The SPDK (Storage Performance Development Kit) is a driver and utility framework that allows you to build high-performance storage systems in the operating system user space. It is used by cloud providers, SDS developers, and DPU-type device manufacturers as part of their SDKs.

December 19, 2022

RAID (redundant array of independent disks) is a technology that allows combining multiple disk drives into arrays or RAID volumes by spreading (striping) data across drives. RAID can be used to improve performance by taking advantage of several drives’ worth of throughput to access the dataset.

December 7, 2022

In this post we will tell you why we like the idea of disaggregated storage and why we try to create solutions using this approach.

December 5, 2022

On Nov. 10, AMD officially released its 4th generation EPYC server processors, codenamed Genoa. In this post, we’ll talk about how this release affects the storage architecture and our plans.

November 21, 2022

Parallel file systems are the heart of the most demanding HPC workloads. As the need for computing power grows, so does the complexity of storage systems. I/O becomes more intensive, complex, and interdependent.The performance of parallel file systems must meet the requirements of computing clusters, and there are technologies that help with this.

October 25, 2022

xiRAID is one of the key products in Xinnor product portfolio. It’s a software RAID module for Linux optimized to work with NVMe devices. In the previous blog we’ve gave some insights on how it works under transactional workloads, usually random in nature and consisting of small size IO operations.

October 8, 2022

Since the introduction of NVMe SSD the question of RAID has been ever-present. Traditional technologies haven’t been able to scale proportionally to the speed increase of new devices, so most multi-drive installation relied on mirroring, sacrificing TCO benefits.