SSD Caching as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2014-05-07
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471 words · ~2 min read
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so I got my SSD and I got my cash
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so maybe it's like youd want a picture
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of like the queen on your SSD and then
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no not that kind of cash we're talking about cash storage so it starts with the
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CPU where there's a tiny little bit of storage that is lightning fast we're
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talking Nan the most frequently used data that your computer needs goes there
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next up we've got RAM which is orders of magnitude more storage but is not nearly
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as fast as CPU cache but it's much
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faster than this guy right here so most computers are still running mechanical
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hard drives which are again orders of magnitude larger in terms of capacity
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than something like memory but orders of magnitude slower as well so where an SSD
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cache comes in is it's kind of like strapping something that's in between
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RAM and in between mechanical hard drives to the solution so the system can
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dynamically automatically intelligently take the data that it needs most often
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but not that often and keep it on an SSD
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drive this is great for things like applications or games where it's huge
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amounts of data but you still want lightning fast loading time now this
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solution obviously isn't great for something like a notebook where you have two separate drives going into the
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device but what if we had something that integrated both of these Concepts
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together in one small device so this is a seate momentous drive this is what's
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called a hybrid drive or an sshd where
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it actually has a hard drive inside and SSD components that are never even
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visible to the end user it just behaves like a faster hard drive but that's not
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where it ends this technology scales all the way up to the Enterprise where huge
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arrays of ssds might be backing up even more massive arrays of hard drives
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that's what keeps Pages like Facebook loading extremely quickly without the
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company completely running out of space to store all of the photos and all of
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the data that gets uploaded to them so the hard drive is big and cheap the SSD
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is small and expensive and this is where the marriage of the two makes a lot of
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sense performance isn't going to be as fast as a purely SSD based system but
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it's going to be much faster than a hard drive based system particularly for your
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most frequently used applications and data I hope you guys have enjoyed this
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