RAID
controller market's days are numbered (ended)
Editor:- 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) 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.
