https://community.netapp.com/t5/AFF/Flash-Cache-NVMe-does-it-provide-write-cache/m-p/151090#M671 <P>FAS9000 platform can use the NVMe drives (installed in slot 6-1 and 6-2, up to 4Tb per drive) as write cache as well.<BR />You can enable it by using the <A href="https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.netapp.doc.dot-cm-cmpr-940%2Fsystem__node__external-cache__modify.html" target="_self">system node external-cache modify</A> command.</P> Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:36:32 GMT maffo 2019-09-17T16:36:32Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/AFF/Flash-Cache-NVMe-does-it-provide-write-cache/m-p/150179#M656 <P>Hello everyone,&nbsp;</P> <P>I has just checking&nbsp;NS0-182 practice exam (<A href="https://www.brainshark.com/netapp/NS0-182-PRACTICE" target="_blank">https://www.brainshark.com/netapp/NS0-182-PRACTICE</A> link from NetApp webpage) and one of the question was how to configure additional write cache for SAS drives.&nbsp;<BR />To my surprise the correct answer was to install&nbsp;Flash Cache NVMe module.&nbsp;</P> <P>I was thinking Flash Cache is read cache only and Flash Pool provides write cache for overwrites. Did something change recently? Can't find any evidence...</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:19:57 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/AFF/Flash-Cache-NVMe-does-it-provide-write-cache/m-p/150179#M656 marcinlub 2025-06-04T12:19:57Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/AFF/Flash-Cache-NVMe-does-it-provide-write-cache/m-p/150183#M657 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="image.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.netapp.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/9228i42977B59D96C98D4/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="image.png" alt="image.png" /></span><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="image.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.netapp.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/9229iA259B50E2809574B/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="image.png" alt="image.png" /></span></P> Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:46:41 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/AFF/Flash-Cache-NVMe-does-it-provide-write-cache/m-p/150183#M657 marcinlub 2019-08-09T12:46:41Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/AFF/Flash-Cache-NVMe-does-it-provide-write-cache/m-p/151090#M671 <P>FAS9000 platform can use the NVMe drives (installed in slot 6-1 and 6-2, up to 4Tb per drive) as write cache as well.<BR />You can enable it by using the <A href="https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.netapp.doc.dot-cm-cmpr-940%2Fsystem__node__external-cache__modify.html" target="_self">system node external-cache modify</A> command.</P> Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:36:32 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/AFF/Flash-Cache-NVMe-does-it-provide-write-cache/m-p/151090#M671 maffo 2019-09-17T16:36:32Z