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XENON XINNOR logoXINNOR’s xiRAID offers fast, reliable RAID software designed for optimal speed, efficiency, and ease of use.

xiRAID is a high-performance software RAID engine that is compatible with all storage devices and delivers exceptional performance, particularly when deployed with NVMe® or NVMe-oF™ devices. It is the only software solution on the market capable of driving up to 97% of raw device performance in a computationally intensive RAID5 configuration, all while maintaining a low load on the host CPU and minimal memory footprint.

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Features

High Performance
  • Achieve speeds of up to 150 GB/s and 30,000,000 IO/s
  • Maintain latency below 0.5ms
  • Deliver consistent performance with mixed I/O workloads
  • Experience minimal performance impact in a degraded RAID state
Usability and Compatibility
  • Supports a broad range of RAID levels: 0, 1, 10, 5, 6, 7.3, 50, 60, 70
  • Compatible with both local drives and remote NVMe-of™ devices
  • Clients interact with the RAID array as if it were a local block device
  • Provides POSIX API support, so existing applications and file systems require no modifications
Lightweight
  • Utilises less than 5% CPU even under maximum workload
  • Optimised memory usage, requiring under 4 GB of DRAM for optimal performance

Why Choose XINNOR?

  • Balances speed, reliability, and efficiency better than many traditional RAID solutions.
  • Simplifies deployment with POSIX support and remote NVMe compatibility.
  • Optimised for modern hardware, reducing resource waste.

Potential Use Cases:

  • AI/ML & Big Data: Requires high-speed storage for large datasets.
  • Cloud & Hyperscale Storage: Benefits from NVMe-oF™ and RAID redundancy.
  • High-Frequency Trading (HFT): Needs ultra-low latency.

XINNOR xiRAID Sample Configuration

Technical specification
Features

Hardware Setup
  • Drives: 12x NVMe SSDs
  • RAID Level: RAID 60 (combines RAID 6 + striping)
  • Controller: XINNOR software RAID (no dedicated hardware controller needed).
  • CPU: Modern multi-core CPU (e.g., Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC, minimal cores due to low CPU overhead).
  • RAM: 8–16 GB DDR5 (XINNOR uses <4GB, but extra for OS/apps).
  • Network: 100 GbE or NVMe-oF™ (if using remote storage).
Tuning Parameters
  • Strip Size: 256K (optimised for large sequential I/O, e.g., video processing).
  • Cache Mode: writeback (for latency-sensitive workloads; use writethrough for strict consistency).
  • Degraded Mode Alerts: Configure notifications for drive failures.
Expected Performance
  • Throughput: ~150 GB/s (with 12x NVMe drives in RAID 60).
  • Latency: <0.5ms for 4K random reads/writes.
  • Redundancy: Survives up to 2 simultaneous drive failures per RAID 6 subset.

Learn more about how XINNOR can accelerate your storage from the XENON Team. Contact us here and we’ll give you a call to discuss your use case further.

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