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Ways to do SSD caching

lele0108lele0108 Member
edited November 2012 in General

I'm interested in doing SSD caching in the near future, what are some ways to do it?

Anybody ever try to Momentus XT drives in RAID10 before? That might be interesting.

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  • concerto49concerto49 Member
    edited November 2012

    FlashCache, BCache, CacheCade, MaxCache etc... some paid, some free.

    @lele0108 said: Anybody ever try to Momentus XT drives in RAID10 before? That might be interesting.

    Doesn't work - doesn't provide desired results.

  • lele0108lele0108 Member

    @concerto49 said: BCache

    BCache looks cool, does anybody have experience with it?

    Cachecade I know, but it's expensive, so I'm looking for alternatives.

  • concerto49concerto49 Member

    @lele0108 said: BCache looks cool, does anybody have experience with it?

    It's faster than FlashCache but less stable. It's more painful to setup. Not as much documentation. It's bleeding edge :)

    Yes, played with it. Experimented for quite a while on all the solutions.

  • eastoncheastonch Member

    IS SSD-Caching still Intel only? Or am I behind in technology again?

  • lele0108lele0108 Member

    @eastonch said: IS SSD-Caching still Intel only? Or am I behind in technology again?

    Well, Intel Z68/Z77 motherboards have integrated SSD caching, but lots of other technologies, like the ones mentioned above do SSD caching as well. Also, some hybrid harddrives, like the MomentusXT.

  • concerto49concerto49 Member

    @eastonch said: IS SSD-Caching still Intel only? Or am I behind in technology again?

    Shouldn't RamNode tell you this? :)

  • WintereiseWintereise Member

    CacheCade is the industry standard in this market for a while now, and it usually works better ;)

    But yeah, ask Nick, he can probably tell you more than I can - considering the offerings are based around SSDs :)

  • eastoncheastonch Member

    @lele0108 Thanks for clearing that up; I'm a desktop guy more than a server guy by trade; and the last time I was upgrading, intels SSD caching stuffs was the big hype.

    @concerto49 Hehe... NIck goes ahead and just hits servers with hammers and installs wizard software; I swear he's a genius. I just answer tickets for people relating to billing etc. ;) One day I hope to have his knowledge though. (Though between us we have a good broad knowledge).

  • Nick_ANick_A Member, Top Host, Host Rep

    Ha, @eastonch we'll go over it on Skype

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