The xiRAID engine is a high-performance software RAID system, leveraging multiple
components to optimize performance. One key component is the internal user-space
high-performance hardware drivers, facilitating efficient IO operations with local or
network-connected devices. By bypassing the OS drivers, xiRAID interfaces directly with
the hardware storage devices. To use a device with the storage engine, it must be
detached from the operating system and attached to the xiRAID engine for visibility.
Once attached, the device is managed exclusively by xiRAID and is no longer accessible
in the host OS. Upon restart, xiRAID automatically re-attaches previously connected
storage devices.Figure 1. Figure 2: RAID, Drive and Storage Device Relation
