Overview : Nytro MegaRAID Overview

Nytro MegaRAID Overview

LSI offers a family of Nytro MegaRAID cards that provides enterprise proven performance acceleration and data protection for direct attach storage (DAS). These cards are built upon the enterprise hardened MegaRAID technology and industry leading flash storage controller solutions. These cards address the growing demand for increased data throughput in database applications, cloud computing, and data centers. These cards provide:

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A four-lane mini-SAS connector for internal disk connection to 6.0 Gb/s SAS/SATA hard disk drives

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An eight-lane, PCI Express 2.0/3.0 host interface

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Two Nytro Flash modules show up as two attached drives: up to 800 GB capacity

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Nytro cache drive for caching

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Nytro Flash modules automatically configured to single Nytro cache drive by default

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The existing and new Nytro cache drives automatically assigned for caching

The Nytro MegaRAID card provides accelerated performance and improved manageability to MegaRAID with its two embedded solid state storage modules. The Nytro MegaRAID card uses onboard solid state storage in front of the connected hard disk drive (HDD) volumes to create high-capacity and high-performance acceleration cache pools.

The Nytro MegaRAID card is based on LSISAS2208 RAID On-a-Chip (ROC). This device is compliant with the Fusion-MPT™ architecture and provides a PCI Express 3.0 interface.

The Nytro MegaRAID card provides enterprise class data protection and transparent performance acceleration to direct-attached SCSI storage volumes. The card provides reliability, high performance, and fault-tolerant drive subsystem management. Performance acceleration is powered by intelligent caching using the Nytro Flash storage.