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by meditek
Fri Jul 16, 2021 7:49 am
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Advice please
Replies: 15
Views: 5732

Re: Advice please

Are you suggesting trim can mess up an SSD?
by meditek
Wed Jul 14, 2021 4:25 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Advice please
Replies: 15
Views: 5732

Re: Advice please

I eventually uninstalled Primocache and, since then, program loading time has become painfully slow (up to 3x as long as before). Any evidence that Primo uninstall leaves problems behind?
by meditek
Tue Jul 06, 2021 5:09 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Advice please
Replies: 15
Views: 5732

Re: Advice please

Does that mean things will continue normaly without over-provisioning? Thanks for the help. Well, over provisioning is a good idea on just about any solid state drive. It can help their lifetime significantly depending on how full the drive gets, and how often you TRIM. I usually go no less than 5%...
by meditek
Tue Jul 06, 2021 11:59 am
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Advice please
Replies: 15
Views: 5732

Re: Advice please

I have 4 SSD's, 3 are for storage,backups etc and rarely used, 15GB ram... You may wish to consider HDDs for backups and other content where speed of access is not important (media files, downloads, etc). I would then suggest setting up the 2 tb970s as a RAID-0 array (if your motherboard supports i...
by meditek
Tue Jul 06, 2021 11:05 am
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Advice please
Replies: 15
Views: 5732

Re: Advice please

Jaga wrote: Tue Jul 06, 2021 9:34 am
meditek wrote: Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:47 amCould I turn off Magician?
Yes you can, I do. There's little point to having it running, and you shouldn't use it's RAPID feature anyhow when Primocache is installed/in-use.
Does that mean things will continue normaly without over-provisioning?
Thanks for the help.
by meditek
Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:47 am
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Advice please
Replies: 15
Views: 5732

Re: Advice please

Thanks
I have 4 SSD's, 3 are for storage,backups etc and rarely used, 15GB ram. Could I turn off Magician?
by meditek
Mon Jul 05, 2021 6:23 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Advice please
Replies: 15
Views: 5732

Advice please

Reading through the help it seems I should have to activate Level-2 cache to get the best out of this software. This involves a re-format. Once reformatted will my 1Tb Samsung 970 SSD still accept and work with my Win 10 Acronis backup? Also, what 'services' supplied by SS Magician will I be able to...