[b]Lots[/b] of Boot Options!
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2019 3:15 am
Hello!
I'm posting about an unusual combination of booting capabilities that might interest some folks. It all starts with a 2015 13" MacBook Pro, on which I run six possible OS boot combinations. These are:
Let's talk about PrimoCache. It's configured as follows:
This has been lots of work, but it's been great fun, and PrimoCache helps it fly!
Cheers!
Mark
I'm posting about an unusual combination of booting capabilities that might interest some folks. It all starts with a 2015 13" MacBook Pro, on which I run six possible OS boot combinations. These are:
- Booting into Win10 on the internal Apple 512GB SSD [Only PCIe 2.0, unfortunately]
- Booting into MacOS on the internal Apple 512GB SSD
- Booting into Win10 on the external Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD! [This also has backup partitions] [But it's just USB 3.0]
- Booting into MacOS on the external Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD
- Booting into Win10 on the external Sabrent Rocket 1TB SSD! [Again, just USB 3.0]
- Booting into MacOS on the external Sabrent Rocket 1TB SSD
Let's talk about PrimoCache. It's configured as follows:
- An L1 of 6.1GB-6.6GB RAM (I just used the defaults - the system has 16GB RAM)
- 60 second Enable Deferred-Write
- Prefetch Last Cache enabled
- A 16GB cache on the internal Apple SSD for Option 3's L2
- A 16GB cache on the internal Apple SSD for Option 5's L2
- Option 1 only uses the L1 cache
- Of course, Windows Fast Startup is On
This has been lots of work, but it's been great fun, and PrimoCache helps it fly!
Cheers!
Mark