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What SSD caching solutions are good, aside from Intel RST and Samsung Magician RAPID mode?
From my experience Intel RST is great, but the size limit of 64GB is a bit small these days (256GB would be ideal) and I feel that it's only real benefit is for disk configurations different than my own. Perhaps in a dual-disk environment on the same controller, where you're using the SSD as a a boot disk and the HDD as everything else this works really well, but not so much in my case.
I have 2 RAID volumes of SSD's, one for the system and another for high-availability databases, etc. These exist on a PERC RAID controller.
My media volumes are on-board Intel z77 (currently 3x3TB RAID0), and I've recently been looking at a way to increase transfer speed with this volume. I was recently using Intel RST to accelerate this volume, but there were little perceived gains when transferring large media files.
Instead, I'm looking for a way to use SSD-caching or SSD-tiering the way a home NAS implements caching. That is to say, when I push huge amounts of data to the volume, it will send it all to the SSD cache first for my cached writes; regularly accessed data in the volume would be kept available in the SSD for cached reads.
Unfortunately, I've not had the option of experimenting with Samsung Macigian. I've heard good things about the RAPID mode, but since my Samsungs are the system partition on the PERC controller, this doesn't quite work.
From my experience Intel RST is great, but the size limit of 64GB is a bit small these days (256GB would be ideal) and I feel that it's only real benefit is for disk configurations different than my own. Perhaps in a dual-disk environment on the same controller, where you're using the SSD as a a boot disk and the HDD as everything else this works really well, but not so much in my case.
I have 2 RAID volumes of SSD's, one for the system and another for high-availability databases, etc. These exist on a PERC RAID controller.
My media volumes are on-board Intel z77 (currently 3x3TB RAID0), and I've recently been looking at a way to increase transfer speed with this volume. I was recently using Intel RST to accelerate this volume, but there were little perceived gains when transferring large media files.
Instead, I'm looking for a way to use SSD-caching or SSD-tiering the way a home NAS implements caching. That is to say, when I push huge amounts of data to the volume, it will send it all to the SSD cache first for my cached writes; regularly accessed data in the volume would be kept available in the SSD for cached reads.
Unfortunately, I've not had the option of experimenting with Samsung Macigian. I've heard good things about the RAPID mode, but since my Samsungs are the system partition on the PERC controller, this doesn't quite work.