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"cache drives"

"cache drives"

Posted Mar 6, 2013 18:30 UTC (Wed) by ntl (subscriber, #40518)
In reply to: "cache drives" by k3ninho
Parent article: The conclusion of the 3.9 merge window

Yeah, I suspected something like this. So the drive exposes only half of its advertised capacity to the host. Assuming the touted "intelligent caching algorithms" are implemented in the drive and not the Windows-only software that OCZ provides, maybe it would compare favorably in a dm-cache configuration to conventional SSDs. Maybe not.

Anyway, the drives in the link seem to be EOL.


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"cache drives"

Posted Mar 7, 2013 11:09 UTC (Thu) by Tobu (subscriber, #24111) [Link]

The caching is in their windows software, the SSD has no visibility on the HDD.

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