Will the Level 2 cache for the disk prevent it from spinning down?

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Will the Level 2 cache for the disk prevent it from spinning down?

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I am setting up level 2 cache for the first time. I have the HDD in my system set to spin down after 5 minutes of inactivity since I don't use them that often.

Will the Level 2 cache for the disk prevent it from spinning down?
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Re: L2 deferred writing doesn't seem to work on 3.x

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@geneo, L2 won't. But do you enable the defer-write for that HDD?
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Re: L2 deferred writing doesn't seem to work on 3.x

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@support

Sorry, I didn't mean to post in someone else's thread.

Yes, I do enable deferred write.
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Re: Will the Level 2 cache for the disk prevent it from spinning down?

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When Defer-Write is enabled, PrimoCache may prevent HDD from spining down too often, otherwise its C1 value will increase very quickly.

(BTW, I separate this topic from your original post which was in an irrelevant thread, making a new thread here.)
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