GRAID Supercharges RAID up to 19 Million IOPS, 110 GBps

[Raevenlord]

GRAID Technology has announced the SupremeRAID SR-1010, which it claims is the "world's fastest NVMe and NVMeoF RAID card for PCIe Gen 4." A PCIe 4.0 evolution of the SupremeRAID SR-1000, the new SupremeRAID SR-1010 upgrades the on-board GPU RAID accelerator from the Nvidia T1000 (Turing) to an Nvidia RTX A2000 (Ampere) GPU. The improved hardware leverages the PCIe 4.0 protocol to achieve RAID speeds in excess of anything you've seen before, with sequential reads rated at 110 GBps and sequential write performance of 22 GBps. Read and write IOPS are set at 19M and 1.5M, respectively.

The change in GPU and PCIe interface means the upgraded SupremeRAID SR-1010 offers a 19% performance boost in read and an 83% write performance increase compared to the model it replaces. The GRAID SupremeRAID SR-1010 offers support for RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and RAID 10 arrays with support for a maximum of four groups, and is capable of managing up to 32 NVMe SSDs under Linux and Windows Server 2019 and 2022 (though performance there takes a big haircut). Availability is pegged for May 1st, but GRAID didn't provide a sticker price for its GPU-powered RAID solution.



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[R-T-B]

This is pretty much the only non-software nvme raid solution I am aware of, and yes, I imagine it is insanely expensive...

 

[Muser99]

See this Hardware Raid is Dead and is a Bad Idea in 2022 - YouTube

 

[liquefytherich]

See this Hardware Raid is Dead and is a Bad Idea in 2022 - YouTube

"there's not physically enough IO bandwidth to carry all of the IO data to the array, just the parity data. you're gonna max out at 16GB/s" (in this case 64GB/s)

"so the explanation is it doesn't check for parity unless a drive is totally missing, or an NVMe drive itself actually reports the error"

I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination when it comes to enterprise storage solutions, but Wendell makes this sound like you're just entrusting the continued integrity of your data to the winds of fate.

 

[trsttte]

This is pretty much the only non-software nvme raid solution I am aware of, and yes, I imagine it is insanely expensive...

This still is software raid, the only difference is that they rebadged a gpu to accelerate the software. It's pretty cool but as master Wendell pointed in his video there are some problems with the way they are implementing their raid solution.

 

[mashie]

Now all we need is an opensource version of this that is working with mdadm.

 

[mechtech]

wow big difference in numbers between linux and windows

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

"there's not physically enough IO bandwidth to carry all of the IO data to the array, just the parity data. you're gonna max out at 16GB/s" (in this case 64GB/s)

"so the explanation is it doesn't check for parity unless a drive is totally missing, or an NVMe drive itself actually reports the error"

I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination when it comes to enterprise storage solutions, but Wendell makes this sound like you're just entrusting the continued integrity of your data to the winds of fate.

Exactly what I was going to say, for something aimed at enterprise there are a few issues with this.