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February 14, 2024

Data Disrupted: How Graid Technology Innovates RAID for SSDs

"Graid emerges as a robust alternative to traditional RAID controller cards for complete systems, particularly in AI, ML, and media applications both on-premises and at the edge."

(Kerstin Mende-Stief for Data Disrupted / Feb. 2024) The larger the amount of data, the higher the requirements. It's not enough to just have data. Applications (and users) want to be able to access and process information quickly. In addition, the data should be available. Always. Depending on the file or storage system, RAID arrays ensure the necessary reliability. How available and resilient data ultimately is depends on many factors. A RAID controller is one of these factors. The widespread SAS and increasingly popular SSDs do not make things any easier for traditional RAID solutions.

In this article we explain how Graid emerges as a robust alternative to traditional RAID controller cards for complete systems, particularly in AI, ML, and media applications both on-premises and at the edge. The introduction of the SupremeRAID 1001 extends Graid's solutions to tower PCs, broadening its applicability across diverse computing environments. Read it here.

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Graid Technology has achieved an industry-first benchmark: 100 million IOPS on a protected RAID 5 volume for GPU-initiated I/O, built from 32 KIOXIA XD8 NVMe SSDs. The result shows that resilient NVMe storage can now operate at the scale that current and future AI deployments require, which is especially significant for environments that require both extreme performance and enterprise-class data protection. In benchmark testing with a WholeGraph training workload, [...]
Every NVMe array pays a hidden storage tax — either 12–18% of line rate lost to a hardware RAID controller, or 18–28% of host CPU consumed by software RAID. With enterprise NVMe pricing up ~257% since Q2 2025, that tax now hits a much bigger check. SupremeRAID™ eliminates both halves by running RAID I/O on an NVIDIA GPU: full line-rate throughput, CPU cores returned to your applications, enterprise-grade protection on one card.