# Using the MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 Feature

Attention: Cachecade is supported only on P824i-p. Starting with version 7.x CacheCade is no longer supported.

The MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 read and write software eliminates the need to manually configure hybrid arrays by intelligently and dynamically managing frequently-accessed data and copying it from HDD volumes to a higher performance layer of SSD cache. Copying the most accessed data (hot spot) to Flash cache relieves the primary HDD array from time-consuming transactions, which allows for more efficient hard disk operation, reduced latency, and accelerated read and write speeds.

The CacheCade Pro 2.0 software is the industry’s first software solution that offers both read and write controller-based caching on SSDs, dramatically enhancing the performance gains achieved by the previous generation the CacheCade software. With the addition of write caching support, read/write-intensive workloads such as Exchange server, high performance computing (HPC) applications, Web 2.0, and other I/O-intensive OLTP database system workloads, experience dramatic performance improvements.

- Creating a CacheCade Virtual Drive
- Modifying the CacheCade Virtual Drive Properties
- Enabling SSD Caching on a Virtual Drive
- Disabling SSD Caching on a Virtual Drive
- Clearing Configuration on Controllers that Have CacheCade Virtual Drives
- Deleting a CacheCade – SSD Caching Virtual Drive

Parent topic: MegaRAID Advanced Software