Da_maniaC
11-24-2013, 04:08 PM
Hi guys,
Lately i have been looking at a few options for 'Xtreme' I/O and storage.
I was looking at a solution that involved S-TEC ZeusIOPS SSD's which have pretty remarkable specs.
Then after some mailing inquiries, someone pointed out the Nytro MegaRAID NMR 8100-4i controller.
This controller would then be used together with my current 4 x 120GB Sandisk Extreme II SATA3 array.
http://legitreviews.com/images/reviews/news/Nytro-MegaRAID.jpg
The controller has 100GB fast SLC flash on-board which is utilised by 4 Sandforce controllers.
In the specifications it states that the card will look for 'hot data' and store this in the SLC cache to speed up your array.
The card also has a seperate 1GB DDR3 buffer cache.
I was wondering if anyone here has already had some user experience or read about this controller?
Will the SLC cache also hit ~80k IOPS (4K Random read) ?
Will this controller natively support Windows 8.1?
Does anyone know if the controller cache can be put in read-only mode?
The other solution i was looking at (a bit more expensive), involved a 200GB S-tec ZeusIOPS SSD and a LSI Megaraid controller (PCI-e 3.0 x8) which would hit approx. 85k IOPS (4K Random read).
Any thoughts/experiences on the Nytro MegaRAID?
Lately i have been looking at a few options for 'Xtreme' I/O and storage.
I was looking at a solution that involved S-TEC ZeusIOPS SSD's which have pretty remarkable specs.
Then after some mailing inquiries, someone pointed out the Nytro MegaRAID NMR 8100-4i controller.
This controller would then be used together with my current 4 x 120GB Sandisk Extreme II SATA3 array.
http://legitreviews.com/images/reviews/news/Nytro-MegaRAID.jpg
The controller has 100GB fast SLC flash on-board which is utilised by 4 Sandforce controllers.
In the specifications it states that the card will look for 'hot data' and store this in the SLC cache to speed up your array.
The card also has a seperate 1GB DDR3 buffer cache.
I was wondering if anyone here has already had some user experience or read about this controller?
Will the SLC cache also hit ~80k IOPS (4K Random read) ?
Will this controller natively support Windows 8.1?
Does anyone know if the controller cache can be put in read-only mode?
The other solution i was looking at (a bit more expensive), involved a 200GB S-tec ZeusIOPS SSD and a LSI Megaraid controller (PCI-e 3.0 x8) which would hit approx. 85k IOPS (4K Random read).
Any thoughts/experiences on the Nytro MegaRAID?