Adaptec has announced the Series 7 family, a new line of 6Gb/s RAID controllers that extends Adaptec into the PCI Express 3.0 realm. Adaptec was acquired in 2010 by PMC-Sierra, a semi-conductor ...

In June we wrote an article about Adaptec's new Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection and explained how the company planned to introduce a revolutionary technology that would leave the battery protection ...

I love this 16x, four-port, full-speed M.2/NVMe PCIe 5.0 card — for auxiliary storage. Its individual x4 slots are faster than most motherboard NVMe M.2 and it’s three to four times as fast in RAID 0 ...

While the synthetic benchmarks indicate blazing potential, real world performance on a Windows PC is little better than a single fast NVMe drive. That said, it’s a very easy, albeit expensive way to ...

HighPoint is a name that will need no introduction to the people that will probably be interested in these products. Distinct from the budget firearms manufacturer with a similar name, HighPoint is a ...

I'm looking for a decent PCIe RAID controller. I'm planning on rolling my own NAS using a donor OptiPlex as the base. I'm looking at 5 2TB WD Red drives and 1 250GB EVEO boot SSD. SSD will boot from ...

The SmartROC (RAID-on-chip) 3200 and SmartIOC (I/O controller) 2200 from Microchip support x8 and x16 PCIe Gen 4 host interfaces and up to 32 lanes of NVMe/SAS/SATA connectivity. According to the ...

Need to add some serious speed and flexibility to your desktop or workstation? If you have a spare PCIe slot, LSI has the tool for you. It's the second-generation MegaRAID SATA+SAS RAID controller ...

What is GPUDirect Storage? Adding RAID to bolster data redundancy and fault tolerance. How adding a PCIe fabric switch helps minimize the complexity of multi-host multi-switch configurations. With ...