I'm posting about an unusual combination of booting capabilities that might interest some folks. It all starts with a 2015 13" MacBook Pro, on which I run six possible OS boot combinations. These are:
- Booting into Win10 on the internal Apple 512GB SSD [Only PCIe 2.0, unfortunately]
- Booting into MacOS on the internal Apple 512GB SSD
- Booting into Win10 on the external Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD! [This also has backup partitions] [But it's just USB 3.0]
- Booting into MacOS on the external Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD
- Booting into Win10 on the external Sabrent Rocket 1TB SSD! [Again, just USB 3.0]
- Booting into MacOS on the external Sabrent Rocket 1TB SSD
Let's talk about PrimoCache. It's configured as follows:
- An L1 of 6.1GB-6.6GB RAM (I just used the defaults - the system has 16GB RAM)
- 60 second Enable Deferred-Write
- Prefetch Last Cache enabled
- A 16GB cache on the internal Apple SSD for Option 3's L2
- A 16GB cache on the internal Apple SSD for Option 5's L2
- Option 1 only uses the L1 cache
- Of course, Windows Fast Startup is On
This has been lots of work, but it's been great fun, and PrimoCache helps it fly!
Cheers!
Mark