On 9/19/2013 12:16 PM, Benjamin ESTRABAUD wrote: > MegaRAID is the LSI RAID controller's driver/management software name. For the young pups here, MegaRAID was the brand name for the hardware RAID products sold by American Megatrends Incorporated, AMI, in the 1990s. You just might recognize that name, since most PCs ship with AMI BIOS. AMI sold their RAID division to LSI more than 10 years ago. They also sold their motherboard division though I can't recall to whom. LSI also purchased Mylex Corp around the same time frame. Together, AMI and Mylex owned over ~70% of the US RAID card market, a large percent of the worldwide RAID card market, and had OEM contracts with all of the major hardware vendors, including Bull, Data General, DEC, Dell, Fujitsu/Siemens, HP, IBM, SGI, SUN, Unisys, etc. Sometime later they also acquired 3Ware, pretty well sewing up the market. Mylex didn't use any branding, simply model numbers, such as DAC960, DAC1100, etc. So LSI retained the MegaRAID brand and has used it for all RAID products to date, as it had wide recognition and is catchy as far as branding goes. -- Stan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
