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Emulex SecureHBA Enables Autonomous Fibre Channel SAN Encryption with Everpure FlashArray

For the first time, end-to-end, hardware-based in-flight encryption is available across the entire Fibre Channel data path—from server to storage array. Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) is now shipping Fibre Channel-capable FlashArray systems with Emulex SecureHBA technology integrated directly into the array, completing the encrypted transport path the industry has been working toward. Future FlashArray models

Broadcom MegaRAID 9670W-16i on top of server
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Broadcom MegaRAID 9670W-16i RAID Card Review

The MegaRAID 9600 series is a third-generation storage adapter that supports SATA, SAS, and NVMe drives, designed to deliver the best possible performance and data availability for storage servers. Compared to the previous generation, the 9600 series offers a 2x increase in bandwidth, over 4x increase in IOPs, 25x reduction in write latency, and 60x

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GRAID SupremeRAID SR-1010 Review

GRAIDTM made waves last year by introducing an NVMe “RAID card.”  Of course, it wasn’t exactly a RAID card at all, but an NVIDIA GPU, paired with GRAID’s software. The net results were astonishing, their first-gen card was able to hit nearly 9 million 4K random read IOPS with minuscule latency, with just 8 SSDs.

GRAID SupremeRAID in hand
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GRAID SupremeRAID SR-1000 Review

GRAID Technology launched its first product over the summer, designed to handle modern throughput challenges that have been introduced by NVMe SSDs. GRAID SupremeRAID, so the claim goes, is “the world’s first NVMe RAID card to deliver 100% available SSD performance.” The little bit of marketing aside, GRAID does hit at a very real issue,

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LSI SAS 9207-8i/e Host Bus Adapter Review

Though the LSI SAS 9207-8i/e Host Bus Adapters have been around for a few years now, they are still the de facto standard for SAS2 solutions, which was immediately adapted when PCIe 3.0 was released. Since the inception of 6Gb/s SASs enabled HBAs and controllers, LSI has been its biggest proponent, having made incredibly successful

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LSI SAS 9300-8i and 9300-8e HBAs Review

The LSI SAS 9300 HBAs are specifically designed for high performance in high-end servers that connect to large scale storage enclosures as well as for internal drive connectivity in 1U/2U servers and workstations. At the heart of the SAS 9300 HBA line is the LSI SAS 3008 IO controller, which takes advantage of the latest advances

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LSI Syncro CS HA DAS Storage Overview

LSI (an Avago Technologies company) Syncro CS has been shipping for over a year now as a self-supported kit and integrated cluster-in-a-box (CiB) solutions are rapidly becoming available. Syncro CS essentially brings high-availability (HA) features to directly attached storage (DAS). Historically DAS architecture has been limited to a single server accessing a single JBOD. With Syncro CS,

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Fusion-io ioDrive2 Duo MLC Application Accelerator Review

The Fusion-io ioDrive2 Duo MLC is a full-height half-length (FHHL) application accelerator that provides up to 2.4TB of capacity via x8 PCI Express slot. Fusion-io cards are notorious for their throughput performance as well as their low latencies, the combination of which drives some of the best responsiveness in the industry. Fusion-io's ioDrive2 cards are all fundamentally all the

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LSI MegaRAID SAS3 9361-8i Review

The LSI MegaRAID 9361-8i SAS3 RAID controller is a 12Gb/s storage adapter featuring PCIe 3.0 host interface, 1GB DDRIII cache memory, 1.2GHz PowerPC 476 dual core 12Gb/s ROC, and 8 12Gb/s SATA+SAS ports. With twice the maximum data transfer rate of 6Gb/s SAS solutions, the 9361-8i delivers enough bandwidth to fully saturate the PCI Express Gen3