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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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xiRAID CPU Utilisation on Sequential Workloads

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.

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Tuning ZFS and testing xiRAID as replacement for RAIDZ

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.

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SPDK RAID evaluation and improvement

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.

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Software RAID or hardware RAID: what’s better in 2023?

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.

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Why we love disaggregated storage

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.

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