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by InquiringMind
Sat Oct 12, 2013 4:25 am
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Feature Request: Ramdisk Folder Migration
Replies: 4
Views: 5943

Re: Feature Request: Ramdisk Folder Migration

FYI you could do it also via Group Policy running a BAT script at Windows startup and Windows shutdown... Thanks for that tip - I was also thinking of an AutoHotKey script which, with 5.6.0's CLI, could create, mount and populate a ramdisk on a single keypress (moving my pagefile onto a separate ra...
by InquiringMind
Sat Oct 05, 2013 5:20 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: How is read and write cache shared?
Replies: 3
Views: 3280

Re: How is read and write cache shared?

Just to clarify, does that mean that memory allocation would follow usage? (e.g. a system that does 4 times as much reading as writing would likely have the cache split 80/20 for read/write data). Or do other factors come into play (e.g. a large write defer setting prioritising write data retention).
by InquiringMind
Sat Oct 05, 2013 5:04 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: New install questions.
Replies: 4
Views: 3424

Re: New install questions.

...It would be a cool feature if it mapped blocks to files so you could see which files, partial or otherwise, that were currently cached. I agree - being able to view what' in the cache and how often it has been accessed would be a neat feature, especially if you could mark individual files to be ...
by InquiringMind
Fri Oct 04, 2013 6:48 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: New install questions.
Replies: 4
Views: 3424

Re: New install questions.

Does this seem like a reasonable starting point for L1/L2cache sizes? Depends on your data usage. Keep an eye on the performance monitor over a few days to get a better idea of how much data you read/write. I'd suggest, with a 64-bit OS, that you may be able to lower L1 usage with little measurable...
by InquiringMind
Tue Oct 01, 2013 4:37 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Acronis Backup And Deferred Writes
Replies: 5
Views: 4423

Re: Acronis Backup And Deferred Writes

If Acronis offers only a CRC check (and no option to properly verify backups once they are done) then frankly I'd suggest using something else. I do recall (when they had their forum at Wilders' Security) a number of threads complaining about backups not working on restore - if that is still an issu...
by InquiringMind
Tue Oct 01, 2013 10:52 am
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Acronis Backup And Deferred Writes
Replies: 5
Views: 4423

Re: Acronis Backup And Deferred Writes

...I could imagine that Acronis flushes the Windows write cache to have all data in the backup - it even has to cache changes that are made to the backup disk while the backup is created because the backup disk needs to be locked... (Long answer follows - sorry!) Acronis' website makes no mention o...
by InquiringMind
Mon Sep 30, 2013 10:35 pm
Forum: Bug Report and Suggestion
Topic: Option to made "Ramdisk detected like a SSD Drive".
Replies: 3
Views: 5210

Re: Option to made "Ramdisk detected like a SSD Drive".

Do you mean being able to choose whether a Ramdisk is identified as removeable or fixed media by Windows?
by InquiringMind
Mon Sep 30, 2013 10:33 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Acronis Backup And Deferred Writes
Replies: 5
Views: 4423

Re: Acronis Backup And Deferred Writes

It's very likely that Acronis (and similar backup software) would be using its own driver to access your data, bypassing Primo's cache completely. However if you're uncertain, you should be able to verify the backups Acronis makes following these instructions.
by InquiringMind
Fri Sep 27, 2013 2:00 pm
Forum: Report Bugs
Topic: System fast, but unstable
Replies: 21
Views: 17583

Re: System fast, but unstable

An anti-virus conflict would seem more likely to give immediate blue screen crashes, but if you can disconnect the notebook from the Internet for a few hours, disabling BitDefender for that time should be enough to check that possibility. Since your posts suggest the most serious problems occur when...
by InquiringMind
Fri Sep 27, 2013 1:35 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: create a ramdisk
Replies: 1
Views: 2798

Re: create a ramdisk

Theoretically possible, but rather pointless for most people. Even the top-end video cards currently "only" have 6GB RAM (with 512MB-1GB being more typical) and anyone with such a card should be keeping that memory reserved for gaming use. As video memory costs more than system memory and ...