Each of the cards allows for up to four SSDs to be used for a total of 1.5TB of capacity.

Marvell's new DragonFly NVRAM accelerator card and DragonFly NVCache card are aimed at optimizing data writes to and reads from SSDs. The cards can accept either SAS or SATA 2.5-in. SSDs. The products will begin shipping Sept. 15.

Marvell's new NVCache card with examples of 2.5-in. SAS and SATA SSDs in the background.

Both DragonFly cards plug directly into commercially available servers with a PCIe slot. The NVRAM and NVCache cards are PCIe Gen2 x8 adapters with 4GB or 8GB SO-DIMM (small outline dual in-line memory module) DRAM.

The NVRAM card offers read and write acceleration producing up to 3.2GBps of throughput or 220,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS) for data reads and 220,000 IOPS for writes.