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Shower thought about this: Instead of create a ULTRA FAST virtual disk by unused memory such as ramdisk, diskache.io can create a ULTRA LARGE virtual disk to cache.
With the now relatively-low price of SSDs, I don't personally see a huge need for this. Maybe 4+ years ago, but not now.
8TB SSDs are still kind of expensive, and when you get to fill just half of that with a few million files on a HDD, just listing the drive contents becomes painfully slow. It surely wouldn't hurt to keep the small files and directories cached on an SSD with several orders of magnitude faster random access.
So, this is essentially a Windows version of OS X's Fusion Drive?
With the now relatively-low price of SSDs, I don't personally see a huge need for this. Maybe 4+ years ago, but not now.
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8TB SSDs are still kind of expensive, and when you get to fill just half of that with a few million files on a HDD, just listing the drive contents becomes painfully slow. It surely wouldn't hurt to keep the small files and directories cached on an SSD with several orders of magnitude faster random access.
No one I know of has an 8TB SSD. Even a 1TB SSD is rather spacious, unless you carry your entire DVD and music collection with you. I thought we had clouds and NASes for that stuff.
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8TB SSDs are still kind of expensive, and when you get to fill just half of that with a few million files on a HDD, just listing the drive contents becomes painfully slow. It surely wouldn't hurt to keep the small files and directories cached on an SSD with several orders of magnitude faster random access.
No one I know of has an 8TB SSD. Even a 1TB SSD is rather spacious, unless you carry your entire DVD and music collection with you. I thought we had clouds and NASes for that stuff.
1 TB is nothing for video like that.
With the now relatively-low price of SSDs, I don't personally see a huge need for this. Maybe 4+ years ago, but not now.
That is so very true. The worst part is - I had a prototype in 2012, but never actually finished it until now. Hope this will find its place in enterprise, where every dollar matters.
Have you tried to combine RAM and SSD caching already?
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No one I know of has an 8TB SSD. Even a 1TB SSD is rather spacious, unless you carry your entire DVD and music collection with you. I thought we had clouds and NASes for that stuff.
Games. Modern games are huge. My Steam folder is just over 400 gig, and I've got only 28 programs in it.
Something that has been on mac for years now and still not in windows :D
http://www.itpath.it/2014/08/20/hgst-virident-servercache-2/
The product was EOLd last year though, probably due to lack of corporate interest.