What impact will seen when flash cache fail? Last updated Save as PDF Share Share Tweet Share Views:6Visibility:PublicVotes:0Category:ontap-9Specialty:hwLast Updated: Applies to ONTAP 9 Answer The read performance for certain data degraded and node may panic reboot. Additional Information Flash Cache enable data that is initially read from HDDs to be retained in cache longer so that subsequent read requests for the samedata are served from low-latency cache instead being retrieved again from HDDs, which respond slower than cache does Node panics due to Flash Cache failure