Save money
with maxRAID.

RAID was built for hard drives. On SSDs it multiplies writes — so you buy more drives than you need, then replace them early. maxRAID writes every update as part of a full, sequential stripe: RAID‑10 speed with the efficiency of RAID‑5 and RAID‑6.

$40K vs $141K

Five‑year SSD cost for 120 TB usable: maxRAID vs RAID‑10¹

7 vs 16

SSDs for 120 TB usable: maxRAID vs RAID‑10²

5+ years

With no SSD replacements. RAID‑5 wears its SSDs out in about 20 months¹

Five‑year SSD cost, 120 TB usable¹

RAID‑5 $119K 9 drives + 18 replacements

RAID‑10 $141K 16 drives + 16 replacements

maxRAID $40K 9 drives + 0 replacements

Faster than RAID‑10.

3.2 million random writes per second, vs 1.0 million for RAID‑10 on the same drives.³

Less written to every drive.

For each 1 GB you write, maxRAID‑5 writes 1.15 GB to the SSDs. RAID‑10 writes 2 GB.

Compression built in.

Blocks are compressed before they’re written — more usable capacity, and even less wear.

More protection, if you want it.

Choose 1 to N‑1 parity drives, including 3‑ and 4‑drive parity.

Try it on your own hardware.

Free for 120 days, on arrays up to 100 TB. A Linux kernel module that presents a standard block device.

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Modeled: 120 TB usable from 15 TB SSDs over five years, under the same heavy‑write workload. 36‑month baseline drive life for RAID‑10, about 20 months for RAID‑5. maxRAID with one parity drive and no compression. Drive costs only.
Modeled: 120 TB usable on 15 TB SSDs, with typical data that compresses by 30%. With no compression, maxRAID needs 9 SSDs; with highly compressible data (60%), 5.
Measured: 4K random writes on six 3.75 TB NVMe SSDs. maxRAID‑5 and RAID‑5 with five data drives and one parity drive.

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Five‑year SSD cost, 120 TB usable1