> I saw this in /. and thought I'd point it out to this list. It appears > to act as a L2 cache for a single drive, in theory providing better > performance. > > http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_contents.php?pno=HDDBOOST&area
It's a neat device, but the notion of a hybrid drive is nothing new. As with any block-based caching, this device has no notion of the semantic meaning of a given block so there's only so much intelligence it can bring to bear on the problem. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
