Something to look ahead to: While players have been impressed by the enhancements a mainstream 2.5GB/s or 5GB/s NVMe SSD can deliver to a PC or recreation console, RAID SSDs are on an entire completely different stage. GRAID claims its newest mannequin continues to push the bleeding edge in PCIe 4.0 speeds.
This week, GRAID introduced the SupremeRAID SR-1010 RAID knowledge middle storage card, upgrading to PCIe 4.0 mere months after its PCIe 3.0 predecessor. Like the SR-1000 which launched final October, the brand new mannequin has a blistering max sequential learn velocity of 110GB/s, however has doubled its max write velocity from 11GB/s to 22GB/s.
Those speeds are for Linux customers, nonetheless. While each SR playing cards are slower on Windows, the efficiency they do obtain on Microsoft’s OS continues to be wonderful, and the SR-1010 makes massive positive factors there in its learn velocity. Where the SR-1000 topped out at 65 GB/s on Windows, its successor reaches 74GB/s. By comparability, Other World Computing’s OWC Accelsior 8MW, launched final November, has a max velocity of 26GB/s.
The efficiency of GRAID’s SSDs comes largely from their distinctive {hardware} design. If the image above seems like a GPU, that is as a result of it’s. The SR-1010 relies on Nvidia’s RTX A2000 workstation graphics card. In addition to granting GRAID’s SSDs extra muscle, utilizing GPU expertise to energy storage lets them course of the I/O themselves, bypassing the CPU.
The SR-1010 helps RAID ranges 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10. It’s appropriate with Windows Server 2019 and 2022 in addition to a number of Linux distros. GRAID’s licensed resellers and OEMs plan to begin providing it on May 1.
