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by libranskeptic612
Tue Apr 13, 2021 8:19 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: L2 SSD Raid-0 Cache
Replies: 19
Views: 22581

Re: L2 SSD Raid-0 Cache

The word salad here is a bit much for my old brain, but basically u seek to get the ~best storage performance from your servers resources. network details & cache sizes are separate details to that question: "On-board Raid 10 (4x4TB HGST 7200rpm drives) - 8TB Total Storage In total 25 Clien...
by libranskeptic612
Wed Apr 07, 2021 5:27 am
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Block Size Implications
Replies: 14
Views: 9244

Re: Block Size Implications

If e,g., a small 256GB ssd were caching a large 4tb (2x2tb) HDD array, then this small cache space ought prioritise the most painfully slow blocks on the hdd array. In the large linear files this rig would suit, these blocks are those at the beginning of each contiguous file. The read head needs to ...
by libranskeptic612
Tue Jun 02, 2020 11:42 am
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: More than 2 levels of caching, and RAID
Replies: 8
Views: 5221

Re: More than 2 levels of caching, and RAID

Just sayin, but when raid1 or raid 10 reads from the least busy mirror copy, its kinda adding a tier of cache?