In late July, we published the article Breaking Records With SSDs: 16 Intel X25-Es Do 2.2 GB/s, which we created after being encouraged by this YouTube video. It is a fun bit of documentation on the initial project that was tackled by Paul Curry, who, like us, went through the efforts for the purpose of promoting decent SSDs. The goal was to illustrate unprecedented storage throughput.

Although we were lucky enough to deliver even better performance numbers on our SSD RAID array (16 Intel X25-E SSDs versus 24 Samsung PB22-J drives), we weren’t really satisfied, and decided to do some more testing using other HBAs and RAID controllers. Intel and LSI came to the rescue, supplying the latest MegaRAID 9210-8i and 9260-8i cards. Man the battle stations!.................................
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