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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The RevoDrive's specs—up to 540MB/s read and 480MB/s writes—come courtesy of its onboard Silicon Image 3124 RAID controller. The card can be configured for RAID Level 0 or RAID Level 1; presumably ...

What just happened? HighPoint recently announced a handful of PCIe Gen5 add-in cards that may appeal to storage enthusiasts with deep pockets. At the top of the stack is the Rocket 7608A, a full ...

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 ...

LSI Corporation today introduced its latest MegaRAID 6 Gb/s SAS+SATA controllers and host bus adapters (HBAs) featuring the PCI Express 3.0 interface.Seven new LSI MegaRAID controllers are offered ...

I know that the following manufacturers make 8-port SATA controllers for PCI-e:<BR><BR>Areca [though I don't like the fact it has a fan for the chipset]<BR>Adaptec<BR>Broadcom<BR>3Ware<BR>LSI (I'm not ...

The folks over at Apricorn - a 26 year old company in SoCal - sent me their new PCIe Drive Array to review. A new video capture card requires higher bandwidth storage - over 100 MB/s sustained - so ...

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 ...

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...