Are RAID Controllers the Next Data Center Bottleneck?

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 25, 2009 @04:23AM from the many-varied-pipes dept.

storagedude writes "This article suggests that most RAID controllers are completely unprepared for solid state drives and parallel file systems, all but guaranteeing another I/O bottleneck in data centers and another round of fixes and upgrades. What's more, some unnamed RAID vendors don't seem to even want to hear about the problem. Quoting: 'Common wisdom has held until now that I/O is random. This may have been true for many applications and file system allocation methodologies in the recent past, but with new file system allocation methods, pNFS and most importantly SSDs, the world as we know it is changing fast. RAID storage vendors who say that IOPS are all that matters for their controllers will be wrong within the next 18 months, if they aren't already.'"

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Re:Hardware RAID becoming less relevant every day. by jon3k · 2009-07-25 16:29 · Score: 0, Troll

"f a SSD craps out, which they WILL do (just look at reviews on newegg for proof of that) "

Intel offers a 3 year warranty on their new drives, most other vendors offer 1 (OCZ, Samsung, etc). I also know of at least 20 SSDs used by friends and family and I've yet to hear of one fail. So, unless you can provide some actual evidence - shut the fuck up.