On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:

From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-
boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk

Close to 1TB SSD cache will also help to boost read speeds,

Remember, this will not boost large sequential reads. (Could possibly maybe even hurt it.) This will only boost random reads.

Or more accurately, it boosts repeated reads. It won't help much in the case where data is accessed only once. It is basically a poor-man's substitute for caching data in RAM. The RAM is at least 20X faster so the system should be stuffed with RAM first as long as the budget can afford it.

Luckily, most servers experience mostly repeated reads.

Bob
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