Hello Roberto, modern day I-RAM are a PCIe SSD's, you might want to take a look at these options OCZ RevoDrive, Fusion-IO ioDrive, LSI Nytro /Tommy 2013/9/24 Roberto Spadim <rspadim@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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 -- 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
