intika wrote:An other thing is about technology, hard drive evolution is growing very fast with SSD in few years fancy cache will became useless when SSD will become as fast as ram, then Romex Software deserve getting something from their work before it become too late.
While SSD speeds have improved rapidly, they're still 10-20x slower than memory and will require new interfaces to catch up (even SATA Express tops out just under 2GB/s compared to 10GB/s+ RAM bandwidth). By which time, memory speeds will have improved also.
So it's a fair bet to say the differential between SSD and RAM speeds will drop, RAM is still likely to remain much faster giving PrimoCache's L1 caching a useful role. L2 (SSD) caching on the other hand may lose relevance as SSD capacities approach those of mechanical hard disks - unless some other storage technology comes along offering higher speeds than SSD.
intika wrote:
...this peace of software don't deserve to be free neither cracked.
While I agree that Romex should deserve payment for this, the current licensing system (online activation-on-install) means that customers risk losing the ability to use this product should Romex close down. In that event, a cracked version will be the only option.
Interesting and disappointing - no Regnow option (as with
Primo Ramdisk) for those who can't use Paypal, and no activation-free option for those wanting to ensure PrimoCache remains working even after Romex disappears (except for volume users apparently).