Synergy of Intel Optane Drives and Raidix ERA Software RAID for Workload Storage

Joint storage solution of Raidix Corporation‘s ERA and Intel Corp.‘s Optane is able to reach 1,000,000 IO/s in mixed mode only with 4 drives: comparison tests show better results with fewer drives required to achieve the desired level of performance.

While Optane is for handling data close to the CPU for rapid access, Raidix ERA software provides record access speed for both random and sequential workloads. Compared to classic NAND SSDs, Optane hardware with 3D XPoint memory architecture gives more stable performance and reaches excel by 431% on write and by 30% on read operations.

ERA algorithms focus on maximizing the capabilities of CPU and optimization of multi-threaded calculation, needed for industries operating high-speed access to the data: IoT, VR, AR, Real-Time Bidding (RTB), large SQL and NoSQL databases, intensive calculation in HPC and big data, 4K and 8K video production.

“For businesses, that largely depend on IT infrastructure, it is crucial to use storage devices with the highest throughput and extended bandwidth with the lowest latency. It is for the high-performance software and efficient data management to get the most from the hardware,” says Sergey Platonov, chief strategist, Raidix.

ERA aggregates multiple directly attached SSDs into fast and reliable virtual block storage to create performance arrays for high load tasks and applications. The core principle is to optimize CPU calculations of incoming data streams for efficient exploitation to improve bandwidth and throughput characteristics. ERA substitutes hardware RAID controllers and less productive software RAIDs (mdraid, for example).

Resource:
Raidix ERA and Intel Optane solution brief

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