Overprovisioning NVME drives used as L2 Cache
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 7:32 am
Hello everyone,
I was reading some of the older comments on this forum, and many of them recommended overprovisioning the L2 cache if it is an NVME SSD. I have since searched the web and I cannot find any definitive evidence that [Western Digital] NVME SSD drives require overprovisioning when they are 100% full and being used as an L2 cache. I wonder whether such WD drives have pre-allocated space for overprovisioning. I wondered whether @Support could please give some guidance as to whether overprovisioning is sill recommended?
Regards, Simon
I was reading some of the older comments on this forum, and many of them recommended overprovisioning the L2 cache if it is an NVME SSD. I have since searched the web and I cannot find any definitive evidence that [Western Digital] NVME SSD drives require overprovisioning when they are 100% full and being used as an L2 cache. I wonder whether such WD drives have pre-allocated space for overprovisioning. I wondered whether @Support could please give some guidance as to whether overprovisioning is sill recommended?
Regards, Simon