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I can confirm that when I create a L2 storage device on a striped (raid-0) volume within windows's disk manager interface, then the l2 cache remains in tact across reboots.

This is not the case when the volume is created with MS Storage Spaces Pools (also a striped pool set).

I just recalled, a couple months back a switched my 2 SSD's into a MS Storage Spaces striped volume. It is this volume that the PrimoCache L2 cache is formatted on. I'm wondering if this is what is causing it to have the cache cleared on reboot. I've now created a striped volume using Disk Manager i...

No, the volatile cache contents option is not set in the advanced options for the cache task.

I'm not sure what has changed, or if something with the 1903 Windows 10 update has changed something, but, it is recent enough that this started happening.

Hi All, I've been using PrimoCache for the better part of 3 years now and I've just noticed that recently (v3.0.9), every time I reboot my system, I lose the contents of the L2 cache. I have a task that is configured to only perform read caching with an L2 storage cache, this has been working nicely...

I don't really do set-it-and-forget it defragmentation, since it can mess with Primocache's content and hit rates when clusters are constantly being moved around and the cache is running. Once a month or two I'll take my Drive pool offline and do individual defragmentation. Pausing Primocache, runn...

All, Thanks for the suggestions, I'll take a look at all of the ones suggested. My setup is 2 x LSI 9211-8i RAID adapters, each with 6 x 4TB drives attached, these 6 drives are then configured in RAID10 volumes. These volumes are then fronted by PrimoCache. It is these RAID10 volumes that I want to ...

No conflict with Dis-keeper 18 PRO or Perfect Disk 14. @minhgi Which disk optimizer would you recommend between these two? I have a workstation with 2 10TB volumes that I have PrimoCache configured for, however I have a lot of fragmentation on these two volumes, and have been on the hunt for a disk...

thanks for the info, with regards defer-write, if defer-write is enabled, does that mean that write data is immediatly written to the L2 write cache, and then written to the disks behind primocache after the defer-write timer? For example, if I set defer write to 10 seconds, and write requests occur...

Hi, Thanks for the tip about defer-write, I have disabled it now. Another quick question, When/how does the L2 write cache work, I'm not seeing L2 cache write statistic climbing when running some benchmarks. I have primocache 3.0.0 beta setup as follows: L1 Cache = 8GB (Read Only) L2 Cache = 95% Rea...

I have a quick question for the L2 write cache, how often/quick is the write cache flushed to the store the cache is backing? The reason I ask is, I have been doing some work where I use VMware workstation to build and test system settings, this usually involves snap-shoting a base known config, mak...