https://community.netapp.com/t5/AFF/Adding-flash-to-a-system-FAS2240/m-p/95601#M159 <P>Buggy,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>the 2240 (and the refresh of that, the 255x) use a small form factor controller that does not contain PCI slots so FlashCache is not an option for those models.&nbsp; But you can have SSD drives and use them to create a FlashPool aggregate.&nbsp;&nbsp; This will provide a read cache and provide&nbsp;a write cache for repetitive random overwrites.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>-prw</P> Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:03:31 GMT pwolf 2014-10-31T22:03:31Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/AFF/Adding-flash-to-a-system-FAS2240/m-p/94943#M111 <P>Can you add a flash cache to an existing 2240 system?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>By this I mean can you upgrade some of the regular disks to SSD, then use that to accelerate your spinning disks?&nbsp;</P> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:25:52 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/AFF/Adding-flash-to-a-system-FAS2240/m-p/94943#M111 Buggy-iGov 2025-06-05T05:25:52Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/AFF/Adding-flash-to-a-system-FAS2240/m-p/95601#M159 <P>Buggy,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>the 2240 (and the refresh of that, the 255x) use a small form factor controller that does not contain PCI slots so FlashCache is not an option for those models.&nbsp; But you can have SSD drives and use them to create a FlashPool aggregate.&nbsp;&nbsp; This will provide a read cache and provide&nbsp;a write cache for repetitive random overwrites.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>-prw</P> Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:03:31 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/AFF/Adding-flash-to-a-system-FAS2240/m-p/95601#M159 pwolf 2014-10-31T22:03:31Z