The university is one of the largest schools in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system, which is the largest provider of higher education in Minnesota. A regional comprehensive university, St. Cloud State has more than 15,400 students and nearly 110,000 alumni.
The most basic difference between the two technologies is that Flash Cache is a PCI-e card (or cards) that sits in the NetApp controller, whereas Flash Pool are SSD drives that sits in NetApp shelves. This gives way to some important points.
A flash memory is a type of flash EEPROM device that can be erased and reprogrammed in blocks instead of one byte at a time. Flash memory devices are different from EEPROM devices in that electrical erasure involves large sections of, or the entire contents of, a flash memory device.