Re: Best configuration for bcache/md cache or other cache using ssd

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

On 9/19/2013 12:16 PM, Benjamin ESTRABAUD wrote:

> MegaRAID is the LSI RAID controller's driver/management software name.

For the young pups here, MegaRAID was the brand name for the hardware
RAID products sold by American Megatrends Incorporated, AMI, in the
1990s.  You just might recognize that name, since most PCs ship with AMI
BIOS.  AMI sold their RAID division to LSI more than 10 years ago.  They
also sold their motherboard division though I can't recall to whom.

LSI also purchased Mylex Corp around the same time frame.  Together, AMI
and Mylex owned over ~70% of the US RAID card market, a large percent of
the worldwide RAID card market, and had OEM contracts with all of the
major hardware vendors, including Bull, Data General, DEC, Dell,
Fujitsu/Siemens, HP, IBM, SGI, SUN, Unisys, etc.  Sometime later they
also acquired 3Ware, pretty well sewing up the market.

Mylex didn't use any branding, simply model numbers, such as DAC960,
DAC1100, etc.  So LSI retained the MegaRAID brand and has used it for
all RAID products to date, as it had wide recognition and is catchy as
far as branding goes.

-- 
Stan