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Hi Everyone, We are thinking of venturing into the world of hosting Windows DomUs on our Xen infrastructure. As Windows generally requires a lot more IOPS than Linux does, we are trying to do everything we can to improve performance. While using SSDs would solve the IOPS problem, SSDs suffer from limited write cycles. So, we have the idea of using Flashcache from Facebook to use a single SSD as

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I''ve been unable to find anything definitive about what happens if I use RAID0 to join an SSD and HDD together with respect to performance (latency, throughput). The future is obvious (hot data tracking, using most appropriate device for the data, data migration). In my specific case I have a 250GB SSD and a 500GB HDD, and about 250GB of