hi guys, i found this one ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-RAM ), but it's pci (not pci-express) and don't have a high iops (pci bootleneck) any pci-express solution like this? 2013/9/24 Roberto Spadim <rspadim@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi Stan,Benjamin, Drew and others guys! > Well i read many things about raid cards now =) thanks stan! i'm not a > expert but at least somethings i understood... > > i was thinking about BBU at raid cards... > it's something like bcache with the 'ssd' part as the raid card, and > the hdd part as the raid disks.... different from ssd the raid card > use ram memory (probably) + batery > > well now my question is... > there's a memory + bbu 'hard drive'? > i want to use it as the ssd part of the bcache, and use the hdd as my > motherboard hdd connections > in other words... i want the raid card goals with a memory hard drive > > any ideas? anyone know anything about it? > > thanks guys! > > 2013/9/19 Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Roberto Spadim -- Roberto Spadim -- 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
