Broadcom LSI00290 PC Utilities Software Software

Features
- Read and Write caching software for 6Gb/s MegaRAID® SATA+SAS controller cards
- Leverages SSDs in front of HDD volumes to create high-capacity, high-performance controller cache pools
- Automatic, dynamic "Hot" classification of data being written and being read
- RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 1 PRL 11 Cache protection
- Configuration through MegaRAID Storage Manager™ with standard virtual drives

Benefits
- Accelerates performance of existing HDD arrays with small upfront investment
- Read and Write caching of hot spot data for significant reduction in I/O latency
- Simple, intuitive management tools to assign and manage CacheCade™ SSD pool
- Faster I/O performance from SSD cache reduces need to short-stroke large number of HDDs, yielding lower TCO

MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 Software Pack w/ FastPath
- Enhance real world performance using less space and power compared to adding drive spindles and unneeded capacity
- Up to 50x performance increase in frequently accessed files and data hot spot simulation benchmarks
- Substantially reduce latency in small block, random read and intensive environments