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That's right, Manny. I configured FC on the server side, so in theory, network accesses to the shared resource should have been cached. Concerning the requirement for TGE: Not true. The "problem" application reads small parts of every file. All 50K of them. In this case, those frequently-a...

Hiya Manny, Thanks for the information. I didn't notice the checkbox that applies to cached-drive power state. If/when I try this again, I'll pay closer attention to that. As far as caching part of a file and metadata, yes, I verified that it indeed does. That part worked well. No joy on network acc...

Tried one last experiment -- Network access to cached drive. It doesn't work, far as I can see -- it ignores the cache and reads the disk directly. So that puts the nail in the coffin for me.

Okay, a couple more things.... Apparently FC prevents power-down of the cached drive. At least the HDD in my test setup isn't powering-down when it ought to. There are no processes running that write to this drive, outside of FC. This is pretty disappointing, as a spinning drive can cost as much as ...

Okay, curiosity got the better of me, so here's what I did: 1) Assembled a test machine out of some unused Socket 775 parts, 8GB RAM. 2) Installed Win7 x64 SP1 and updates. Minimal driver set for functionality. 3) Copied entire disk with music files to an unused disk. So what we have is Win 7 on SSD...

Forgot to ask: Would I be correct in assuming that FC also caches metadata such as directories and the MFT?

Hello All, I've devoted a while reading the support information for FC as well as reading many of the posts here. I *think* that FC will work in my intended application, but would like to get some feedback from actual users in a couple of gray areas. First, let me describe what I want to do: I have ...