Raidix: NVMe Compliant Software ERA More Than 8X Faster Than Similar Solutions

Radix research lab has conducted comparative software testing by SNIA methodology: Raidix Corporation‘s ERA is more than eight times faster than similar solutions.

Testing was based on hardware from Intel Corp., currently one of the leading manufacturers of NVMe components. Test platform used Intel server system equipped with 12 hot plug drives and 2 Xeon Gold processors.

ERA performance was measured in comparison with the most common software arrays – MDRAID and RAIDZ2. The number of i/O operations, latency and throughput was evaluated for each software product. The overall performance of ERA when working with the 4K block size is close to the speed of hardware platform and is more than two times faster than MD RAID-6 for read operations and more than 8 times for mixed load and write operations.

Sergey Platonov, deputy GM, strategy, Raidix, shares the story behind ERA development: “Present software for NVMe drives can not keep up the speed of the hardware, while the market of solutions that support and develop NVMe technology is growing rapidly“.

Popular common software RAID arrays for NVMe devices can not make full use of hardware platforms. ERA shows a few million IO/s R/W speed on the arrays with parity in mixed modes and provides threaded performance from 30GB/s, during drives failure and recovery as well.

Free ERA license for NVMe and SSD drives is available for download at the company’s website.

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2018.08.24 | Press Release