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by cichy45
Sun Jan 03, 2021 11:31 am
Forum: Submit Suggestions
Topic: Deffer Write - Average - adjustable load/independent load
Replies: 1
Views: 1332

Deffer Write - Average - adjustable load/independent load

Hello all! My setup: 2x SSD as L2 cache with Defer Write - Average option selected. Cached HDD: target 1/2 - new and fast Seagate SSHD, target 3 - older Seagate HDD, lower performance. I observed, that when using Average Primocache writes to ALL HDD with same speed, for example 40 MB/s. My idea: opt...
by cichy45
Thu Nov 19, 2020 4:55 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: What does "Windows idle" mean?
Replies: 5
Views: 1428

Re: What does "Windows idle" mean?

Could you maybe make this parameter adjustable? So I can set that IDLE means <25% CPU load and <5% disk activity or another values, depending on needs.
by cichy45
Fri Dec 27, 2019 8:27 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: I'm not sure l2 cache Works properly
Replies: 6
Views: 4293

Re: I'm not sure l2 cache Works properly

Even if you will set 512KB cluster for 4KB drive, then M.2 SSD is fast enough to handle refreshing of 512KB blocks. That is not an issue in my opinion, especially with 500GB cache disk. It will be mostly static content, write once, read many.
by cichy45
Fri Dec 27, 2019 8:17 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Suggested Server settings
Replies: 10
Views: 7940

Re: Suggested Server settings

If you have UPS you can use write strategy "Idle Only" + latency: infinite. This will write data from cache to HDD only when system is idle (or cache is full), so you will not experience write speed drop when cache start flushing to hdd after 5-20-60 second. Question to @support, will you ...
by cichy45
Fri Dec 27, 2019 8:11 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Is it redundant to allocate L2 cache for an SSD drive
Replies: 2
Views: 3944

Re: Is it redundant to allocate L2 cache for an SSD drive

Yes, Primocache will use L2 SSD cache to cache another SSD if you set your options to do so. Someone might want to cache large 4TB SATA SSD with fast 256GB M.2 NVME for example. As for your second question - it depends, as always. If you need hundreds of thousands IOPS then you should use L1 RAM cac...
by cichy45
Wed Nov 27, 2019 10:07 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Question about TRIM and whole cached SSD's
Replies: 2
Views: 3398

Re: Question about TRIM and whole cached SSD's

PrimoCache does not currently support TRIM, so you are left with SSD own Garbage Collector. However, TRIM should be supported in future releases of PrimoCache as support said in some other threat.
by cichy45
Fri Nov 22, 2019 9:24 am
Forum: Submit Suggestions
Topic: Network Drive Support
Replies: 11
Views: 7482

Re: Network Drive Support

You can install PrimoCache on PC where you have your shared disks. I have my network drive accelerated with primocache this way. PrimoCache is installed simply not on remote client, but on "server" (normal PC in my case).

As long as it is a windows machine obviously.
by cichy45
Fri May 03, 2019 10:32 am
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: RAM + Optane as cache for SSD
Replies: 5
Views: 3498

Re: RAM + Optane as cache for SSD

Using Optane or RAM to cache SSD is good if you need hundreds of thousands IOPS for your workload - some application where you have thousands of client accessing database and performing lots of small requests/inserts. IMHO completely useless for daily usage if all you do is browse internet, play som...
by cichy45
Thu Apr 18, 2019 1:51 pm
Forum: Submit Suggestions
Topic: [Feature request] Hybrid Write
Replies: 2
Views: 5255

Re: [Feature request] Hybrid Write

Thank you for reply. Yes, I think that data protection in case of power loss and merging write speed of cache and cached volume would be beneficial.
by cichy45
Sun Apr 14, 2019 5:23 pm
Forum: Submit Suggestions
Topic: [Feature request] Hybrid Write
Replies: 2
Views: 5255

[Feature request] Hybrid Write

Hello. Recently one idea appeared in my mind - hybrid write. So, lets say you have (actual numbers not important) 500GB HDD that can write data 100MB/s and 60GB SSD as L2 Read/Write cache that can write data at 200MB/s. Deffer-Write is disabled, so with current PrimoCache writing to HDD is not accel...