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Monoroch wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:05 pm SSD write buffer for HDD. It still cache, just in another direction.

I guess that makes sense. Too bad for something relatively slow (like write-caching) it doesn't use a on-disk index, but I'll live.

I recently built a desktop computer, and wanted to revisit Primocache as a 'landing zone' for a slew of external 8tb SMR hard drives. I'm not interested in caching, or L1 memory at all, I just want to use a 500GB SSD RAID-0 as a write-buffer for my slow disks. Like the title says, I don't understand...

Hey fattipants - good to see you here. Holy smokes! It's going to be morning before I can digest all of that, but I wanted to pop in and thank you for all the effort! From what I gleaned from the initial skim, that's about what I expected, since it works at block level. I thought perhaps it would r...

I hope someone can answer a few quick questions for me before I install and try PrimoCache. My current configuration is a single 250GB SSD, and 6x8TB archive disks pooled with DrivePool. I'm considering migrating my OS to a 1TB HDD and dedicating the 250GB SSD as L2 cache for all other disks in the ...