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- Thu Dec 08, 2022 4:53 pm
- Forum: Technical Support
- Topic: Primocache and Windows built in caching service
- Replies: 5
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Re: Primocache and Windows built in caching service
Windows file caching uses a 256KB granularity: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/performance-tuning/subsystem/cache-memory-management/ Old article that explains it more in depth, the mechanism hasn't really changed since then: https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/...
- Thu Jul 07, 2022 8:53 pm
- Forum: Technical Support
- Topic: Can Primocache use storage drives connected via ethernet from another PC for caching or to be cached?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 609
Re: Can Primocache use storage drives connected via ethernet from another PC for caching or to be cached?
Plenty of people (including me) are using Primocache to cache a iSCSI mount from a slower NAS. The Microsoft iSCSI-initiator is built right into every Windows version. Once you have the iSCSI target mounted, Primocache will see it as a local disk. Forget about using Windows and Primocache on your PC...
- Sat Apr 03, 2021 2:14 pm
- Forum: Technical Support
- Topic: Is caching an iscsi drive good idea?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2096
Re: Is caching an iscsi drive good idea?
I did this for years, 10gbit LAN to a 16TB TrueNAS box. 1TB SSD on my machine set to read-only caching. The only downside is in case of a crash, the cache content gets reset. I've moved the cache SSD into the NAS and set it as L2ARC now that TrueNAS has persistent L2ARC since v12.0. Honestly, I don'...