MEGARAID Cachecade

[nanaki333]

Hey all,

Anybody here use MEGARAID products? They have a nifty little thing called CACHECADE, but it's only available via license. The cards come with nothing to activate this feature (not sure why you need a license TO activate it) and you go to the new website, and there's no information on obtaining a license. I've clicked a few links I found via Google and it took me instead of to an Highpoint site it was pointed to, to a default products page for Avago.

Anybody that knows anything about getting these mystical license, if you could point me in the right direction, I would be very grateful. I currently use Primocache to accelerate arrays on my Areca cards, but I bought a Highpoint for a new VM host to try out CACHECADE on it. Imagine my "joy" when the interface has the feature grayed out because I don't have a license.

 

[Elixer]

I thought that was discontinued, but, I don't recall where I read it.

 

[nanaki333]

I thought that was discontinued, but, I don't recall where I read it.

it is still advertised on the cards that you buy and is listed on the website.

have you personally ever used it? i'm asking not to be a dick, but wondering if it's actually good and works well, or if i should just keep going the softcache route.

 

[nanaki333]

i decided to check ebay and search "cachecade" and son of a bitch if i didn't find something... http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-LSI-Meg...775436?hash=item19fe30868c:g:7NwAAOSwstxVXHOx

 

[master_shake_]

jesus...

the raid 6 key i bought was cheaper than that.

 

[Elixer]

it is still advertised on the cards that you buy and is listed on the website.

Yeah, the box could be old stock, but, the web site is in disrepair, so it seems like if it is something they still support, they would have working links, and a place to buy, and all that good stuff.

have you personally ever used it? i'm asking not to be a dick, but wondering if it's actually good and works well, or if i should just keep going the softcache route.

Nope, never tried that specific one, so can't help you out there. Don't know if you saw this or not... http://serverfault.com/questions/512193/how-effective-is-lsi-cachecade-ssd-storage-tiering it might answer some of your Q's.