topic VDI deduped FlashCache image wear in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/VDI-deduped-FlashCache-image-wear/m-p/10977#M2517 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi There,</P><P></P><P>Take a coffee break and enjoy your enhanced performance and space savings instead! </P><P>Flash has a finite number of program-erase cycles - so moving things around tends to have the opposite effect - you would actually wear it out quicker.</P><P></P><P>Cheers</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:43:43 GMT ajeffrey 2011-08-15T19:43:43Z VDI deduped FlashCache image wear https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/VDI-deduped-FlashCache-image-wear/m-p/10971#M2516 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi there,</P><P></P><P>If i dedupe 1000 VM's and the majority are then served from FlashCache, do we take care to move the image around in cache, so as to avoid wearing out the cache (aka monitor burn from the old days of CRT displays <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="happy" __jive_macro_name="emoticon" class="jive_macro jive_emote" src="https://community.netapp.com/4.5.5/images/emoticons/happy.gif"></SPAN> )</P><P></P><P>Thanks.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:48:14 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/VDI-deduped-FlashCache-image-wear/m-p/10971#M2516 gcaley 2025-06-05T06:48:14Z VDI deduped FlashCache image wear https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/VDI-deduped-FlashCache-image-wear/m-p/10977#M2517 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi There,</P><P></P><P>Take a coffee break and enjoy your enhanced performance and space savings instead! </P><P>Flash has a finite number of program-erase cycles - so moving things around tends to have the opposite effect - you would actually wear it out quicker.</P><P></P><P>Cheers</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:43:43 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/VDI-deduped-FlashCache-image-wear/m-p/10977#M2517 ajeffrey 2011-08-15T19:43:43Z VDI deduped FlashCache image wear https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/VDI-deduped-FlashCache-image-wear/m-p/10982#M2518 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Flash Cache has built-in wear leveling and in practice is far, far more resilient than the best enterprise SLC drives. A LOT of parallelism on the board, lots of chips to spread the load. So, don't worry about it at all. Never seen one fail BTW.</P><P></P><P>Just leave the stuff where it is... <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="happy" __jive_macro_name="emoticon" class="jive_macro jive_emote" src="https://community.netapp.com/4.5.5/images/emoticons/happy.gif"></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:15:41 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/VDI-deduped-FlashCache-image-wear/m-p/10982#M2518 dimitrik 2011-08-23T14:15:41Z