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October 15, 2022

The French Storage Podcast: Interview with Leander Yu, Founder & CEO of Graid Technology

Graid Technology joined the 46th edition of The IT Press Tour in California this week and it was the perfect opportunity to record a new podcast episode with Leander Yu, CEO and founder of the company. The company designs, develops and builds a GPU-based RAID PCIe card to protect NVMe SSDs. We spoke about the roots of the project, its financial profile, the product, how does it work, the use cases ad workloads support, the got-to-market, the pricing and a bit of future directions as well. Enjoy the listening. Thank you Leander.

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About  Graid Technology

Chosen by CRN as one of the Ten Hottest Data Storage Startups of 2021 and a 2022 Emerging Vendor in the Storage & Disaster Recovery category,  Graid Technology Inc. has developed the world's first NVMe and NVMeoF RAID card to unlock the full potential of enterprise SSD performance. We're headquartered in Silicon Valley, with an R&D center in Taiwan, and are led by a dedicated team of experts with decades of experience in the SDS, ASIC and storage industries.  Graid Technology Inc. is redefining performance standards for enterprise data protection: a single SupremeRAID™ card delivers 19 million IOPS and 110GB/s of throughput. For more information on  Graid Technology Inc., connect with us on Twitter or LinkedIn.

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Don't miss our joint speaker session with Supermicro, where we'll walk through scaling approaches across every tier, from single-server to rack-scale to monolithic deployments, and show how dense NVMe GPU platforms paired with SupremeRAID™ turn SSDs into a high-performance, protected KV cache tier. If storage is becoming your AI infrastructure bottleneck, this is the session to catch. See you at FMS 2026!
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.