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Nytro MegaRAID™


Add flash performance, smart acceleration, and enterprise
data protection to any Pogo System with the all-new LSI Nytro® MegaRAID™

Today’s data center managers and storage administrators face big data challenges.  Data protection, the ability to process large amounts of information, and application performance are of paramount importance.  The all-new LSI Nytro™ MegaRAID® application acceleration adapter – the first PCIe card to combine flash storage and caching software with LSI’s leading RAID controller technology – adds extreme server performance, intelligent application acceleration, and enterprise-class data protection to most Pogo rackmount servers and managed storage appliances.


Why Choose a Nytro MegaRAID-enabled Pogo System?

LSI Nytro™ MegaRAID®-enabled Pogo systems can dramatically reduce system latency and accelerate key business applications – in some cases, an up-to-47x performance increase over traditional solutions using spinning media.

  • Flash Performance – Embedded SandForce® flash storage processors with DuraClass™ technology directly on card
  • Intelligent Acceleration – Next-generation read-and-write caching software
  • 6Gb/s SAS+SATA Advantage – Low-profile PCIe 3.0 card with support for 6Gb/s connectivity for SAS-connected devices
  • Flash Performance – On-board LSI SandForce® flash storage processors
  • Enterprise Data Protection – LSISAS2208 Dual-Core SAS RAID-on-Chip (ROC) with 800MHz PowerPC® with comprehensive GUI and CLI RAID management


Product Benefits

Experience greater performance benefits, along with the lowest cost-per-GB and cost-per-transaction, from an affordable flash-based solution that’s far less expensive than pure SSD alternatives.

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Extreme Flash Performance

  • On-board NAND flash storage reduces latency up to 47x, for faster application response and load time on the HDD RAID array during rebuild times
  • Experience improved manageability from faster rebuild times, and sustained performance while in degraded mode, when requests come from flash storage
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Intelligent Application Acceleration

  • Sophisticated caching software identifies frequently accessed data in applications, and promotes it to faster on-board flash storage
  • This read-write caching algorithm automatically classifies these data “hot spots” – ideal for a wide-variety of I/O-intensive workloads
  • Designed as an evolution of the popular CacheCade RAID caching solution, the Nytro MegaRAID brings the flash-storage on-board instead of requiring users to configure an array of consumer or enterprise-grade SATA or SAS SSDs themselves.
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Enterprise Data Protection

  • Unmatched RAID performance from LSI’s market-leading dual-core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) technology
  • Embedded RAID-protected flash storage designed for optimum performance
  • Broad compatibility with existing infrastructure through the use of LSI SAS and MegaRAID drivers, featuring extensive operating system and management support


Choose the LSI Nytro MegaRAID-enabled Pogo Server System or Storage Solution that’s right for you


Pogo Linux servers and workstations, and Pogo Storage managed storage solutions with LSI’s Nytro™ MegaRAID® acceleration cards are available now and ready for immediate deployment.

Intel Xeon & Core i7 Iris Servers

[Intel® Servers]

Choose among single-, dual- & quad-processor Iris rackmount servers that support multi-core Xeon® and Core i7 technologies.

1 u rackmount servers

AMD Opteron Atlas Servers

[AMD Servers]

Choose among single-, dual-, quad- & 8-way processor Atlas rack servers that support multi-core AMD Opterons™.

1 u rackmount servers


nas servers

[NAS Servers]

Deploy an inexpensive yet efficient NAS solution to host cloud applications, serve databases, or stream media. [Learn more]

1 u rackmount servers

Getting Started

Take advantage of these helpful product resources to learn how data center managers and storage administrators utilize LSI Nytro MegaRAID technologies to address big data challenges.


Product Resources

LSI Nytro MegaRAID Product Datasheet
LSI Nytro MegaRAID Usecase – Accelerating Online Transaction Performance (OLTP)
LSI Storage Channel on YouTube