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High-Performance Storage Solution for Virtual Environment on Xinnor RAID Engine and Kioxia PCIe 5.0 Drives

SSDs continue to advance in speed, particularly with the market shift to NVMe™ PCIe® 5.0 SSDs. With this technology, a single SSD can now achieve remarkable sequential read speeds of up to 14GB/s and sequential write speeds of 7GB/s, along with handling millions of Input/Output per second (IOps).

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Raising data availability with xiRAID and Pacemaker. Part 1

What is a high availability cluster and why it is important. Nowadays, data are the foundation for almost every business; the biggest threat to successful organizations is the loss of their data or the inability to access them.

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Saturating InfiniBand Bandwidth with xiRAID, to Keep NVIDIA DGX Busy

Modern AI innovations require proper infrastructure, especially concerning data throughput and storage capabilities. While GPUs drive faster results, legacy storage solutions often lag behind, causing inefficient resource utilization and extended times in completing the project.

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High Performance Storage Solution for PostgreSQL Database in Virtual Environment, Boosted by xiRAID Engine and Kioxia PCIe5 Drives

In this document, we’ll look at the optimal way to provide high performance to PostgreSQL in a virtualized environment. With this goal, we are comparing the performance of vHOST Kernel Target with Mdadm against SPDK vhost-blk target protected by Xinnor’s xiRAID Opus.

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Why Hardware RAID Cannot Cope with NVMe Performance: Interview with Sergey Platonov

In our new blog post, we had the opportunity to speak with Sergey Platonov, our VP of Product Strategy, who brings a deep understanding of RAID technologies to the table. Throughout the interview, Sergey discusses the significant challenges and limitations inherent in hardware RAID solutions, from the constraints of PCI-Express lanes to logistical issues highlighted […]

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Performance Guide Pt. 3: Setting Up and Testing RAID

This is the third and the final part of the Performance Guide. The first two parts were about performance characteristics, the ways to measure it and optimal hardware and software configurations. Now, in this concluding section, we’ll be focusing entirely on RAID.

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Performance Guide Pt. 2: Hardware and Software Configuration

This is the second part of our Performance Guide blog post series. In the previous part, we’ve covered the fundamentals of system performance, its basic units and methods for measurement.

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PCIe Gen 5 Storage Array Optimization: Overcoming the Obstacles to Get the Best Performance

Just like when the NVMe protocol first appeared on the scene, the advent of server platforms and storage devices supporting the PCI-E Gen5 interface has brought forth a new layer of complexity and challenge.

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Performance Guide Pt. 1: Performance Characteristics and How It Can Be Measured

We’re excited to introduce a new blog post series focused on testing and enhancing storage performance. Throughout this series, we’ll walk you through the entire process, from defining objectives and preparing the necessary hardware and software to optimizing performance using a software RAID engine.

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A Guide to RAID Pt. 4: RAID vs. Erasure Coding. What’s the Difference?

Erasure coding and RAID are both data protection technologies that are used to improve the reliability and performance of storage systems. While erasure coding is sometimes seen as a more advanced technology than RAID, it is important to understand that they are actually two sides of the same coin.

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A Guide to RAID Pt. 3: RAID in the Era of SSDs

Solid-State Drives (SSDs) have revolutionized storage technology with their transformative impact. They offer blazing speed, minimal latency, and high throughput, making data access lightning-fast and critical for applications requiring real-time processing.

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A Guide to RAID Pt. 2: RAID Levels Explained

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, data storage is crucial for safeguarding critical information. RAID technology has revolutionized data storage, offering improved performance, increased data redundancy, and optimized capacity. However, with various RAID levels available, selecting the ideal configuration can be challenging.

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A Guide to RAID Pt. 1: Advantages and Disadvantages of RAID

In the evolving landscape of data storage solutions, RAID has emerged as a prominent technology, offering enhanced performance, data protection, and reliability for various applications.

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xiRAID CPU Utilisation on Random Workloads

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

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