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by swmspam
Wed Feb 22, 2012 6:30 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: About Fancycache and Defragment tool
Replies: 9
Views: 7743

Re: About Fancycache and Defragment tool

Thank you HowardB, Your explanation was excellent and helps dispel confusion - a lofty and admirable ambition. Therefore, it appears that disk I/O is greatly reduced with a Diskeeper/FancyCache combination. Obviously, FancyCache significantly reduces I/O (I regularly see 30% read hit rate and 70% wr...
by swmspam
Tue Feb 21, 2012 7:55 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Multi-volume shared cache?
Replies: 1
Views: 2530

Multi-volume shared cache?

Is it possible for a single large cache to service multiple volumes? Example case: Windows 7 is on C: drive. iTunes is on D: drive. Instead of setting up two caches, it would be much more efficient to use a single large cache. Since the D: drive is used only occasionally, it is not worth creating a ...
by swmspam
Tue Feb 21, 2012 7:50 pm
Forum: Bug Report and Suggestion
Topic: Feature Request: Datalogger
Replies: 1
Views: 2487

Feature Request: Datalogger

It would be much easier to analyze FancyCache performance and debug interactions if we could datalog the Performance Monitor . The Performance Monitor is great - it shows the amount of data going in and out of the cache and the total cache contents. However, it is visual only. It would be very helpf...
by swmspam
Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:30 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: FancyCache causes drive clicking
Replies: 4
Views: 4506

Re: FancyCache causes drive clicking

I tried the Hitachi Feature Tool to disable APM, but apparently, either the Dell BIOS or Windows 7 overrides my manual changes and resets the value. quietHDD is working wonders now.
by swmspam
Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:23 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: About Fancycache and Defragment tool
Replies: 9
Views: 7743

Re: About Fancycache and Defragment tool

This suggests defragmentation with fancycache active is a very risky proposition indeed.
by swmspam
Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:24 am
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: FancyCache causes drive clicking
Replies: 4
Views: 4506

Re: FancyCache causes drive clicking

There are many reports of Hitachi drives being noisy due to aggressive head parking. Some forums refer to this as the "Dell torture device". I'm still looking for a solution. Looking at SMART data, I can see my Hitachi has already used 17,000 Load Cycle Count out of 600,000 - or about 1,00...
by swmspam
Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:44 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Experience thus far
Replies: 0
Views: 5040

Experience thus far

I’ve run FancyCache for about three weeks. Hardware Core i5 8GB RAM 500GB Hitachi z5k500 HDD 24GB SSD FancyCache Configuration Volume Edition 2048 MB lv 1 4kB Block Size LFU-R Read/Write 600 seconds Release After Write with Averaging Write Amount Readyboost enabled on 24GB SSD My daily usage profile...
by swmspam
Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:57 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: About Fancycache and Defragment tool
Replies: 9
Views: 7743

Re: About Fancycache and Defragment tool

I understood that the Windows Defrag utility (which provides the defragmentation API to thrid-party defrag utilities) bypassed cache and wrote directly to the disk. Does FancyCache sit underneath this, so that the defrag data is buffered through FancyCache?
by swmspam
Fri Feb 03, 2012 4:46 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: FancyCache causes drive clicking
Replies: 4
Views: 4506

FancyCache causes drive clicking

I sit with my laptop in a quiet office. Years ago, I had an old laptop with a hard drive that clicked like a bitch. I hated it. So I'm sensitive. [edit] Issue fixed with quietHDD [end edit] My laptop now sits here (mostly) silently. However, with FancyCache write-deferred, it clicks exactly with on ...
by swmspam
Thu Feb 02, 2012 2:25 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Readyboost and FancyCache
Replies: 1
Views: 4389

Readyboost and FancyCache

I've been using FancyCache for a couple weeks. Due to generalized laziness of yet another forum account, I've only got around to registering today. Can FancyCache coexist with Readyboost? From what I understand, the functionality is different, although I can image some potential conflicts. Readyboos...