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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The major downside to using volatile memory for caching is that, in the event of a power failure, data in cache could be lost. File systems and databases <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">where </del>told by storage that their writes were completed, so they would have flushed their database logs and file journals, potentially leaving both corrupt.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The major downside to using volatile memory for caching is that, in the event of a power failure, data in cache could be lost. File<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-</ins>systems and databases <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">were </ins>told by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>storage <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">driver </ins>that their writes were completed, so they would have flushed their database logs and file journals, potentially leaving both corrupt.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For this reason, most <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">all </del>RAID controller cache modules support "battery backed" or "flash backed" write caching. These use batteries or capacitors to continue providing power to the volatile memory after the host loses power, protecting the data not yet written to disk.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For this reason, most RAID controller cache modules support "battery backed" or "flash backed" write caching. These use batteries or capacitors to continue providing power to the volatile memory after the host loses power, protecting the data not yet written to disk.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In battery-backed caching, a large battery is connected directly to the cache module, often referred to as a "BBU"; a battery-backed unit. These BBUs have a finite amount of power and generally are designed to protect the data in the cache module for 24 to 48 hours. If the power is not restored to the module in this time, the data can be lost.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In battery-backed caching, a large battery is connected directly to the cache module, often referred to as a "BBU"; a battery-backed unit. These BBUs have a finite amount of power and generally are designed to protect the data in the cache module for 24 to 48 hours. If the power is not restored to the module in this time, the data can be lost.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In flash-backed caching, a small battery or a capacitor bank is connected to the cache module <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and a small amount of non-</del>volatile solid-state storage <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and are </del>often referred to as a "FBWC"; <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a flash</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">backed write cache</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In these cases, the contents of the volatile cache module is protected long enough to copy the </del>data <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to non-volatile storage built into </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">battery or RAID controller. This data </del>is then protected indefinitely, making FBWC the safer choice to use when available.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In flash-backed caching, a small battery or a capacitor bank is connected to the cache module<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. This powers the </ins>volatile <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cache long enough to copy it's contents to </ins>solid-state storage<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, which is not volatile. This "flash-backed" cache is </ins>often referred to as a "FBWC"; <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Flash</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Backed Write Cache</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The </ins>data <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">flash memory </ins>is then protected indefinitely, making FBWC the safer choice to use when available.</div></td></tr>
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Write-back caching is a technology used in disk storage to improve performance. It works by providing an amount of high-speed, volatile memory used to store data destined for non-volatile storage on relatively slowed hard drives or solid state drives.<br />
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Write-back caching is particularly useful on traditional platter-based hard drives and [[RAID]] arrays where highly-random write access is expected. It allows for writes to be buffered, masking the performance loss caused by hard drive seek latency. Data is stored in the high-speed cache and slowly flushed out to disk, giving the user much better response time when writing files to storage.<br />
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The major downside to using volatile memory for caching is that, in the event of a power failure, data in cache could be lost. File systems and databases where told by storage that their writes were completed, so they would have flushed their database logs and file journals, potentially leaving both corrupt.<br />
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For this reason, most all RAID controller cache modules support "battery backed" or "flash backed" write caching. These use batteries or capacitors to continue providing power to the volatile memory after the host loses power, protecting the data not yet written to disk.<br />
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In battery-backed caching, a large battery is connected directly to the cache module, often referred to as a "BBU"; a battery-backed unit. These BBUs have a finite amount of power and generally are designed to protect the data in the cache module for 24 to 48 hours. If the power is not restored to the module in this time, the data can be lost.<br />
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In flash-backed caching, a small battery or a capacitor bank is connected to the cache module and a small amount of non-volatile solid-state storage and are often referred to as a "FBWC"; a flash-backed write cache. In these cases, the contents of the volatile cache module is protected long enough to copy the data to non-volatile storage built into the battery or RAID controller. This data is then protected indefinitely, making FBWC the safer choice to use when available.<br />
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