Is Hardware RAID Supported?

No. The current generation of mainstream hardware RAID products would greatly degrade the combined performance of a multi-drive Fusion-io ioDrive setup. These hardware RAID products are not capable of keeping pace with a single ioDrive, let alone multiple ioDrives.

Software RAID is a tried and tested solution that ships in many modern operating systems such as Microsoft Windows ®, Linux ®, Mac OS X ®, and Solaris ®.* Software RAID can provide management flexibility, redundancy, and high performance.

Simple RAID striping and mirroring are available in each of these operating systems. In addition, extended levels of protection such as RAID-5, RAID-6, and RAID-10 are available in many of these operating systems. There are also other approaches to create additional redundancy and high availability beyond a single node or system.

A software RAID-0 volume of multiple ioDrives can deliver multiple gigabytes per second (GB/s) of bandwidth and hundreds of thousands of IOs per second (IOPS).

Please contact a Fusion-io sales representative today to discuss your high-performance, storage solution needs.

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