Ssd Caching Demo For Raid Arrays

Post by **Nellyboy** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:01 am

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COsN74YL ... detailpage" target="_blank">Impressive</a> demo of this. Use an ssd as memory for your raid card.

Very fast if you need the speed for a server.

Post by **madman045** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:13 pm

Yeah, Dell do it with their new Perc H700 controller

1GB ram on the controller, 6 SAS drives and 2 SSDs as cache for the array, very fast performance overall

Post by **Trig** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 7:12 pm

MMmm, think I should get one of these then Andy

Post by **madman045** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 5:53 pm

Trig wrote: MMmm, think I should get one of these then Andy

Yeah, 4x 450GB 6GB SAS Raid 10 with 2 SSD's

<a href="http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source ... KA&cad=rja" target="_blank">http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&sourc...vKA&cad=rja</a>

76% increase in performance...

You will need a new server though, I supplied the T610 recently

Post by **Trig** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:06 pm

What's wrong with the server we have lol

Post by **madman045** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:27 pm

lol something to do with the number of PCI-E slots that it has i believe and the 2900 is not on the supported server list, only the new models

Post by **Trig** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:25 pm

Madman045 wrote: lol something to do with the number of PCI-E slots that it has i believe and the 2900 is not on the supported server list, only the new models

Ok, so much for that idea then, will tell them I that I'm going to use the existing 2900 as a vm host for the bes crap then tell them afterwards that we need a new server to replace the existing 2900 with 2003sbs on it...