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Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Vladimir Videscu <vladimir.videscu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD on SSD
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>
> You will have to read afterwards the same 8GB over and over again to
> make the drive believe that you want to have these 8GB faster.

and do it randomly. disk is for sure smart enough to not cache long linear 
reads .

>
> How to make sure that the data is really cached?
> There is no way.
true.

That's why i don't like such solution. And such drive is very expensive.