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Facebook has updated an open source tool that lets admins wring fast performance cheaply from disk-based arrays fed from PCI-e flash cards. The "Flashcache" tool was updated to version 3.0 by the company on Wednesday. The tool lets the company sit a high-performance cache on PCI-e flash cards to speed access to important data …

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  1. numbernine

    Or...

    We're trialling qlogic fabriccache cards here. FC card with onboard SSD that caches reads and writes.

    Transparent to the OS, no coding required. Utilises our existing storage array.

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