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EnhanceIO™ SSD Cache Software from STEC is designed to help the user easily create, configure and analyze cached environments with cost-effective scalability using solid-state drives (SSDs).

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What are the advantages/disadvantages of different SSD to HDD cacheing options (dm-cache, flashcashe...)?

There appear to be various different technologies available to use an SSD to act as a cache for HHDs. The ones I know of: dm-cache (by Redhat - in the 3.9 Kernel, so it should be in ubuntu 13.10) ... ssd dm-cache flashcache bcache enhanceio Uli

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asked May 4, 2013 at 10:29 9 votes 1 answer 441 views

Got a new SSD, don't want to wear it out but I still want to use some of it to store data files together with the old HDD

I bought a new 250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD for my laptop that I want to use as primary storage device, together with the old but still functioning 250GB 7500 RPM HDD that I put in the former DVD bay ... ssd performance bcache caching enhanceio Fabio A.

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asked Dec 8, 2015 at 15:29 3 votes 0 answers 625 views

How to remove a write-back EnhanceIO cache on root partition?

I accidentially created a write-back EnhanceIO cache for my root partition. I didn't know that Creating a writeback cache on root device is not supported. This is because the root device is mounted ... btrfs initramfs 15.04 enhanceio Kalle Richter

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asked Apr 15, 2015 at 8:05 2 votes 0 answers 3k views

EnhanceIO: Write-through vs Read-only

I have installed an EnhanceIO SSD cache on my notebook. EnhanceIO supports three caching modes: read-only, write-through, and write-back. Read-only caching mode causes EnhanceIO to direct ... cache flashcache enhanceio warvariuc

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asked Nov 28, 2013 at 6:02 0 votes 1 answer 549 views

EnhanceIO persistent udev rules not firing on reboot - Ubuntu 14.04.3

Abstract : I've installed enhanceIO and enhanceio-dkms from the daily PPA at giving version 0+git20130406-0~69~ubuntu14.04.1. Everything seems to be ... ssd lvm udev cache enhanceio Halfwalker

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asked Oct 17, 2015 at 14:34 0 votes 1 answer 369 views

Should I put /boot on SSD or HDD

I am running Lubuntu 14.04 64bit. I am planning to implement EnhanceIO to use my new 25GB SSD drive for caching my 4TB RAID 0 array. The raid array is partitioned as: 500MB /boot, 20GB /, 200GB /... partitioning ssd cache enhanceio JavaMan07

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asked May 15, 2014 at 16:02