Premium Features Enhance Your Storage Applications
Get even more performance and data protection with Premium Features for Intel® RAID solutions. When combined with Intel® RAID controllers, you can further enhance storage applications and deliver higher ROI for your server boards and systems.
Enhance Performance
- Uses solid-state drives (SSDs) as additional cache for the RAID controller by means of SSD flash tiering; frequently accessed information is stored in cache to allow for rapid access
- Accelerates SSDs using FastPath I/O, providing up to 465,000 I/O reads per second for small, random block-size I/O activity; this is a dramatic increase over solutions without FastPath
Advanced Data Protection
- Enables authentication key management, auto-lock, and instant erase of self-encrypting drives
- Helps reduce risk of data being compromised when drives eventually leave the data center
- Significantly reduces the cost and time of repurposing or retiring drives
- Captures source volume data changes allowing users to quickly restore files, recover data, or roll back applications to a previous point in time
- Allows isolation of a server’s boot volume to a separate virtual drive; by enabling the AutoSnapshot feature, users are guaranteed bootable snapshots exist in case operating system corruption occurs
