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Put hardware in between RAM and Disk features to work in between these

Put hardware in between RAM and Disk features to work in between these

Posted Apr 17, 2009 0:05 UTC (Fri) by hozelda (guest, #19341)
Parent article: That massive filesystem thread

Is there a reason why solid state drives aren't use on PCs as a cache level ahead of the main disk drives? These can even be made replaceable (it's just a cache anyway). Wouldn't these improve the performance/correctness trade-offs enough for many use cases?


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