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.
Everyone talks about flash, but not too many users actually know how it works. Flash is a transistor-based silicon memory technology that can store information permanently by trapping electrons into so-called floating-gate transistors. Depending on the threshold voltage of the flash cell, the transistor will either remain insulated or become conductive.