LSI 9265 MegaRAID Supplementary Review: The Beauty of CacheCade! @ The SSD Review

RAID has always been the quickest way to get super performance from any sort of storage subsystem.  Considering how fast SSDs are you have to wonder if RAID really makes a big difference over a single drive.

Today we are going to take an indepth look at Cache Cade, a new approach to storage systems that allow the perfect fusion of HDD capacity and SSD speed.  W ith many large databases and enterprise users ‘caught in the middle’ with large HDD arrays, yet needing more performance from their existing infrastructure, CacheCade is a great option that allows the best of both worlds.

The concept behind CacheCade is that it will be integrated into several consumer products by several big players in the computing industry, thus becoming very prevalent in the long term storage outlook. Both the enterprise and consumer segments are coming to grips with the changing landscape of storage brought about by the emergence of the SSD as the premium storage option. As always, the enterprise applications are trickling down into the consumer realm, and LSI is right at the forefront of development with this new method of storage enhancement.

They seem to think so but if I am reading this correctly they are using a cache method to speed up performance much like what Intel is doing with Smart Response or even what hardware RAID controllers have been doing for years.  Either way it should be fast.

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