Considering using PrimoCache, but I have a few questions
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 8:39 pm
Good day to all!
0/ I do quite a fair bit of programs installation / desinstallation and updates, compressions/decompressions, video encoding from two HDDs
The way I understand it, all the files associated with these tasks are not worth caching as the files involved are used once only. My real interest is for PrimoCache to help me accelerate loading times for HDD-based games (with a level-2 cache) and for my most used SSD-based windows programs (with level-1 cache).
If set up a level-2 cache for my two HDDs will PrimoCache be able to intelligently recognize what operations are the ones worth caching or do I have for that to install my games on their own cached volumes?
Or am I likely in that scenario to be better served with installing the 2-3 games that I play the most at a given moment on my SSD and forget about caching altogether?
(Setup: 1 250Go M2 PCIE SSD with 2 OSes in dual boot / 1 500Go SSD to dedicate to level-2 caching / Two 4To HDDs with data and games)
1/ Is Primo cache compatible with a dual boot setup?
My system has a classic Win 7 / Win 10 dual boot setup (Win 10 as default)
I'd like to install PrimoCache on Win7. Will the dual boot be a problem?
If I later decide to also have PrimoCache running on Win10, will installing it on both OSes in dual boot create problems?
Will I have have to buy two licenses?
2/ Can a level-2 storage volume be on an SSD that is used to boot the OS?
I have Windows installed on an relatively small M.2 PCIE SSD (C:/)
At the moment I have the Windows swap files, Temp and Windows Temp folders, and Users folder on one a HDD. But I am thinking of migrating these to my 500Go SSD (partition E:/) and then use the rest of the space on it (about 400Go) to set up a level-2 cache for the HDDs (partition F:/).
Would it be a somehow a potential source of problems that the level-2 storage volume is on a disk with a partition (E:/) that is used as part of booting the OS?
3/ How does Primo cache handle symbolic links?
If a source (folder and its contents) is on a slow drive (HDD) but it is accessed via a symbolic link on a fast drive (SSD) will Primo cache recognize that folder and its files as being on a slow HDD an potentially requiring caching or will it mistakenly think that there are on the SSD?
4/ Does having RAM beyond the max 16Gb acknowledged by Windows 7 x64 (by contrast the x64 professional/enterprise/ultimate versions acknowledge up to 192 Gb) qualify as invisible memory?
I have 32Gb of RAM but my Win x64 home premium manages only 16. Can I set a Level-1 cache with 0Gb OS managed memory and 16Gb (incuding overhead) of OS invisible memory?
Thank you in advance for the help.
Cheers
0/ I do quite a fair bit of programs installation / desinstallation and updates, compressions/decompressions, video encoding from two HDDs
The way I understand it, all the files associated with these tasks are not worth caching as the files involved are used once only. My real interest is for PrimoCache to help me accelerate loading times for HDD-based games (with a level-2 cache) and for my most used SSD-based windows programs (with level-1 cache).
If set up a level-2 cache for my two HDDs will PrimoCache be able to intelligently recognize what operations are the ones worth caching or do I have for that to install my games on their own cached volumes?
Or am I likely in that scenario to be better served with installing the 2-3 games that I play the most at a given moment on my SSD and forget about caching altogether?
(Setup: 1 250Go M2 PCIE SSD with 2 OSes in dual boot / 1 500Go SSD to dedicate to level-2 caching / Two 4To HDDs with data and games)
1/ Is Primo cache compatible with a dual boot setup?
My system has a classic Win 7 / Win 10 dual boot setup (Win 10 as default)
I'd like to install PrimoCache on Win7. Will the dual boot be a problem?
If I later decide to also have PrimoCache running on Win10, will installing it on both OSes in dual boot create problems?
Will I have have to buy two licenses?
2/ Can a level-2 storage volume be on an SSD that is used to boot the OS?
I have Windows installed on an relatively small M.2 PCIE SSD (C:/)
At the moment I have the Windows swap files, Temp and Windows Temp folders, and Users folder on one a HDD. But I am thinking of migrating these to my 500Go SSD (partition E:/) and then use the rest of the space on it (about 400Go) to set up a level-2 cache for the HDDs (partition F:/).
Would it be a somehow a potential source of problems that the level-2 storage volume is on a disk with a partition (E:/) that is used as part of booting the OS?
3/ How does Primo cache handle symbolic links?
If a source (folder and its contents) is on a slow drive (HDD) but it is accessed via a symbolic link on a fast drive (SSD) will Primo cache recognize that folder and its files as being on a slow HDD an potentially requiring caching or will it mistakenly think that there are on the SSD?
4/ Does having RAM beyond the max 16Gb acknowledged by Windows 7 x64 (by contrast the x64 professional/enterprise/ultimate versions acknowledge up to 192 Gb) qualify as invisible memory?
I have 32Gb of RAM but my Win x64 home premium manages only 16. Can I set a Level-1 cache with 0Gb OS managed memory and 16Gb (incuding overhead) of OS invisible memory?
Thank you in advance for the help.
Cheers