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Hybrid disk drives
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Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]>
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Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 27 Jan 2015 08:20:36 -0800
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There are hybrid disk drives that have a "small" SSD flash memory along 
with the regular spinning media, typically to serve as a cache for lower 
latency.  Does anyone have long term experience with these units?  Most 
flash memory is not designed for the long term repeated read/write/erase 
cycles of a primary disk drive -- how are these holding up?  Is the 
flash configuration totally transparent to the Linux file systems and 
formatting operations?

Yasha Karant

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