8 Working with maxCache Devices

Adaptec Smart Storage Controllers support an advanced SSD caching technology called maxCache™. maxCache uses a reserved logical drive, called the maxCache Device, to support read and redundant write caching for storage connected directly to your controller. The maxCache device is comprised of SSDs only.

With maxCache read caching enabled, the system copies frequently read "hot" data to the maxCache device for faster retrieval. With maxCache write caching enabled, the maxCache device is populated with certain "hot" blocks from the logical drives on the controller. All writes to these hot blocks go directly to the maxCache device. The data remain on the maxCache device until it is full or some other "hotter" data replaces it.