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.
Video: Cache Memory: Definition & Concept. Cache memory is a type of memory used to hold frequently used data. Cache memory is relatively small, but very fast. Most web browsers use a cache to load regularly viewed webpages fast. The most important type of cache memory is the CPU cache.