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I've used a longer deferred write time before to enhance the Trimmed Blocks feature (300 or 600 seconds), but it really only shines with things like temporary files that are created, used, then deleted before the delay runs out. Plus - you really should have a UPS on the machine if you're going to u...

That's a good point, and it helps to be able to work out the data amount with those stats. Thank you for the clarity Support. Are we still under the assumption that trimmed blocks are redundant writes that get discarded? I see it a lot with multi-part FTP downloads that complete, get assembled and c...

Good to hear Jim. A great reason to disable startup at boot for Magician if it's installed, and keep Rapid off.

Blocks means Primocache block size, that you set when you created the cache task. And yes - they weren't written to disk, because they didn't need to be.

That 98% Cached Read is your hitrate, meaning that disk reads happened in the cache instead of the physical disk. It's an extremely good hitrate you should be very happy with. Your Trimmed Blocks are also very high, which is writes that *would* have happened on the disk, except Primocache found them...

Ah, understood. It's manageable and not a big thing, but at least you know what causes it. Cheers.

I'm just guessing, but Samsung's Rapid mode may intercept disk operations at the kernel level, which is the exact same level at which Primocache intercepts them. Not a good combination under those circumstances, and I'm pretty sure it's been recommended not to run both at the same time, since they e...

Thank you!

The only things I did to upgrade were: flush/pause the deferred write cache (not needed if you don't enable it in the task), run the 3.0.9 installer as an Admin, reboot when prompted. Upgrade went smoothly and cache contents were preserved after reboot (prefetch loaded successfully).

Great to hear!