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NVMe hardware raid now available at XLHost

Jul 22, 2021 1:52:58 PM

PCIe NVMe SSDs have been available for enterprise/datacenter deployments for several years. With the performance of the typical NVMe SSD being ten to fifteen times greater than the average SATA SSD it has been very tempting to deploy these drives for applications that require a lot of IOPs, storage throughput, or both. Up until now using NVMe drives in servers has come with compromises related to resiliency and overall performance. While the drives themselves have redundant NAND flash memory, the drives could still fail in a number of ways which could impact the availability of applications.

Drew

ssd, storage, dedicated servers

Choosing the right dedicated server storage

May 21, 2013 9:26:00 AM

Hi again, this article is part two in the series which began with Choosing the right dedicated server platform. Here we will discuss various storage related issues from hard drives to RAID levels and more. The goal at XLHost is to help you choose dedicated servers that will provide you with the best price to performance ratio for your application(s).

Drew

ssd, storage, dedicated servers

Choosing the right SSDs for your dedicated servers

Apr 2, 2013 8:20:00 AM

SSDs have been generally available for mainstream enterprise and consumer use since about 2008. As the average price per GB of SSD rapidly declines and the performance, reliability, and endurance continues to increase; many enterprises are turning to SSD storage as a way of delivering the data their applications need to achieve outstanding performance.

Drew