In my 2009 article
storage market outlook
to 2015 I explained why the hardware RAID controller market for
HDDs would soon come
to an end - as users switch to
enterprise SSDs to
accelerate apps speeds and increase
storage reliability
- while alternative software
based data dispersion schemes using
cloud technologies will
provide better data survivability than RAID in
HDD based arrays.
I
also predicted that the legacy RAID controller vendors would either have to
migrate to SSDs (PCIe SSDs
or SSD ASAPs
(auto-tiering hybrids)) or go our of business.
Some RAID concepts
have moved inside
SSDs. (This is process which started in the late 1990s.)
As a
result of these various market changes this resource page about RAID controller
chips and HBAs - which was once very popular in the 1990s - is now obsolete
and joins
floppy drives,
optical drives and
tape libraries as part of
storage history.
