GRAID Technology (via StorageReview) has launched the SupremeRAID SR-1010, touted as the "world's fastest NVMe and NVMeoF RAID card for PCIe Gen 4." The new SupremeRAID SR-1010 aims to take SSD RAID performance to the next level, ensuring there is no performance left on the table.
The new SupremeRAID SR-1010 is the successor to the company's previous SupremeRAID SR-1000, which was on the PCIe 3.0 interface. However, leveraging a speedier PCIe 4.0 interface, the SupremeRAID SR-1010 arrives with a substantial performance uplift. The sequential read performance remains unchanged at 110 GBps, but the SupremeRAID SR-1010 boasts sequential write performance of 22 GBps — twice as fast as the SupremeRAID SR-1000.
When it comes to random performance, the GRAID Technology rates the SupremeRAID SR-1010 with read and write speeds up to 19M IOPS and 1.5M IOPS, respectively. So we're looking at a 19% uplift in read performance and a whopping 83% in write performance.
The SupremeRAID SR-1010 is light years above even the most high-end hardware RAID arrays. According to GRAID Technology's figures, the SupremeRAID SR-1010 offers over 8X higher sequential reads and 5.5X sequential writes. In addition, random performance shows more than 5X better random reads and 8X random writes.
SupremeRAID SR-1010 Performance
| Header Cell - Column 0 | SupremeRAID SR-1010 | SupremeRAID SR-1000 | High-end Hardware RAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4k Random Read | 19M IOPS | 16M IOPS | 3.5M IOPS |
| 4k Random Write | 1.5M IOPS | 820k IOPS | 180k IOPS |
| 512k Sequential Read | 110 GBps | 110 GBps | 13.5 GBps |
| 512k Sequential Write | 22 GBps | 11 GBps | 4 GBps |
| 4k Random Read In Rebuild | 5.5M IOPS | 3M IOPS | 36k IOPS |
| 4k Random Write In Rebuild | 1.1M IOPS | 600k IOPS | 18k IOPS |
The SupremeRAID SR-1010 features a dual-slot design and measures 2.713 x 6.6 inches (height x length). In addition, the NVMeoF RAID card utilizes a blower design with a single cooling fan to keep temperatures in check. According to StorageReview, the SupremeRAID SR-1010 employs Nvidia's RTX A2000 (Ampere) GPU — a significant upgrade over the SupremeRAID SR-1000, which has the Nvidia T1000 (Turing) at its heart.
The SupremeRAID SR-1010 fits into an x16 expansion slot, but to unlock its full potential you might want to make sure that it's a PCIe 4.0 interface. The maximum power consumption of 70W is only 20W higher than its predecessor. The SupremeRAID SR-1010 admits RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10 arrays like the previous model. The card manages up to 32 directly attached NVMe SSDs and supports the most popular Linux distributions and Windows Server 2019 and 2022.
The SupremeRAID SR-1010 will be available starting May 1 through GRAID Technology's authorized resellers and OEM partners. The card's pricing is unknown.
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wskinny Yeah, big. No actually GIGANTIC problem with this RAID solution.Reply
Yes it does give you the performance uplift it claims that said it does it at the cost of risking data integrity as it does not have a effective consistency check on the array's data. It can't even protect against bit rot proactively.
If all you care about is performance and the full integrity of the data you are handling is not relevant unless the damage makes it completely useless which would be the case with most compressed video footage storage, this is definitely not for you.
If a single bit error can never happen on your data AVOID THIS AT ALL COSTS!
For reference here is a video from proper testing on this solution:l55GfAwa8RIView: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l55GfAwa8RI&ab_channel=Level1Techs -
mdd1963 Replywskinny said:Yeah, big. No actually GIGANTIC problem with this RAID solution.
Yes it does give you the performance uplift it claims that said it does it at the cost of risking data integrity as it does not have a effective consistency check on the array's data. It can't even protect against bit rot proactively.
If all you care about is performance and the full integrity of the data you are handling is not relevant unless the damage makes it completely useless which would be the case with most compressed video footage storage, this is definitely not for you.
If a single bit error can never happen on your data AVOID THIS AT ALL COSTS!
Surely no errors can occur during storage or retrieval with any of today's multi-Terabyte NVME SSDs!!! (Or, at least this controller so hopes!) -
escksu Replywskinny said:Yeah, big. No actually GIGANTIC problem with this RAID solution.
Yes it does give you the performance uplift it claims that said it does it at the cost of risking data integrity as it does not have a effective consistency check on the array's data. It can't even protect against bit rot proactively.
If all you care about is performance and the full integrity of the data you are handling is not relevant unless the damage makes it completely useless which would be the case with most compressed video footage storage, this is definitely not for you.
If a single bit error can never happen on your data AVOID THIS AT ALL COSTS!
For reference here is a video from proper testing on this solution:l55GfAwa8RIView: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l55GfAwa8RI&ab_channel=Level1Techs
Are you supposed to keep backups??? No??
Isn't it a common practice to keep daily backups? Then most companies keep 1 copy of full weekly/montly backup. -
escksu Replymdd1963 said:Surely no errors can occur during storage or retrieval with any of today's multi-Terabyte NVME SSDs!!! (Or, at least this controller so hopes!)
RAID has nothing to do with drive level data consistency. RAID's purpose is only allow you to combined several drives together to form a large one, some modes with redundancy, some dont.
Bit rot is a drive level issue and not array level. With or without raid, you still have problems with bit rot.
But bit rot is not a big problem to begin with because companies mostly have their own backups. So you get multiple copies of the same data and you could recover it when you need it.
Its of course entirely possible to schedule consistency check periodically. -
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Watch the video before commenting. Modern raid is dead as statedescksu said:RAID has nothing to do with drive level data consistency. RAID's purpose is only allow you to combined several drives together to form a large one, some modes with redundancy, some dont.
Bit rot is a drive level issue and not array level. With or without raid, you still have problems with bit rot.
But bit rot is not a big problem to begin with because companies mostly have their own backups. So you get multiple copies of the same data and you could recover it when you need it.
Its of course entirely possible to schedule consistency check periodically.
As he states in the video there is no data correction on that graphics card