zfs discuss - Feb 2010 - Hybrid storage ... thing

I saw this in /. and thought I''d point it out to this list. It appears
to act as a L2 cache for a single drive, in theory providing better
performance.

http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_contents.php?pno=HDDBOOST&area

-B

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> I saw this in /. and thought I''d point it out to this list. It
appears
> to act as a L2 cache for a single drive, in theory providing better
> performance.
> 
> http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_contents.php?pno=HDDBOOST&area
It''s a neat device, but the notion of a hybrid drive is nothing new. As
with any block-based caching, this device has no notion of the semantic
meaning of a given block so there''s only so much intelligence it can
bring
to bear on the problem.

Adam

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Adam Leventhal, Fishworks                        http://blogs.sun.com/ahl