The university is one of the largest schools in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system, which is the largest provider of higher education in Minnesota. A regional comprehensive university, St. Cloud State has more than 15,400 students and nearly 110,000 alumni.
The most basic difference between the two technologies is that Flash Cache is a PCI-e card (or cards) that sits in the NetApp controller, whereas Flash Pool are SSD drives that sits in NetApp shelves. This gives way to some important points.
Disk Cache is part of the Global Performance Cache. 1  Enable Disk Cache by going to Preferences > Media & Disk Cache, then checking the box. 2  Set your preferences to put the disk cache on your fastest drive and set it to as large as possible and set it to another fast hard drive. 3  Choose the folder for your cache.