Giga Computing, a subsidiary of GIGABYTE and an industry leader in high-performance servers, server motherboards, and workstations, today announced continued collaboration with GRAID Technology, and the creation of GIGABYTE R Series servers to overcome NVMe bottlenecks in storage applications. Online shopping, financial trading, editing high-resolution images, and AI-generated content have all become parts of everyday life. Enterprise companies are now developing better server solutions with faster compute speeds, greater energy efficiency, and more secure data protection. Giga Computing focuses on the design of computing hardware for GIGABYTE servers and works with GRAID Technology to develop integration solutions that disrupt the storage market. Together they have created next-generation servers and NVMe controllers that will become the new standards for RAID across NVMe SSDs.

Traditional RAID technologies have become a bottleneck for NVMe SSD performance, so GRAID developed the SupremeRAID high-speed RAID card which Giga Computing used to develop a comprehensive solution. The GIGABYTE R283-S92 server became the first server to support the SupremeRAID SR-1010 RAID card. In addition, all future GIGABYTE R283 and R183 servers will incorporate this optimization and become servers with the highest compatibility for GRAID's next-generation technologies. After installing SupremeRAID SR-1010, the user simply installs the corresponding driver and software on the operating system to activate the virtual controllers on the NVMe SSD, process storage and computing functions, and satisfy the ultra-high-performance requirements for all types of workloads.

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.