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		Symmetry on Aug 10, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SSD myths and legends: write endurance I actually think the best approach, longterm, would be to use the SSD as a cache for the HD at a filesystem level. I believe something along those lines was just merged into the Linux kernel.

supergauntlet on Aug 10, 2013 [–]

Yep, dm-cache essentially does what Intel Smart Response does except it's done in the OS and not the BIOS.

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