A Couple quick questions

[kkelln]

Hello. I am new to this board and have never used a product like FancyCache before. I have read the manual and several threads here but cant seem to find answers to a few questions. Perhaps you can help. First, in case it matters, here is my system configuration:

Asus Rampage III Formula Motherboard (X58)
Intel i7-950 (quad core stock at 3Ghx overclocked to 3.9Ghz)
24Gb Mushkin RAM (DDR3 with timings of 9-9-9-24)
Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate OS with all patches and up-to-date
The OS and applications sit on OCZ Vertex III 120Gb ssd connected via SATA3 (6gb) Marvel controller integrated in motherboard - I only partition 90Gb on this drive to give the ssd integrated controller 30Gb to play with.
I use system for editing photos and HD video using Adobe CS5 Master Suite
I have two OCZ Solid 60Gb SATA3 ssd running in RAID 0 but on SATA2 (3gb) Intel integrated controller (my mobo has 6x SATA2 and 2x SATA3, so there were not enough SATA3 ports). I only partitions 90Gb of the 120Gb stripe, giving the controllers 30Gb of breathing room. I use this drive as my scratch drive, where I store all Adobe temp files, a Windows 7 page file, and all Adobe cache files.
I have two 2Tb Western Digital Black Hard drives in RAID 0. I use these for storage of video and photographs - about 20,000 files comprising 1.2Tb.
I have an ULTRA 600watt UPS that, for some reason, no longer works - I will replace it shortly.

So, the system is pretty fast. I want to use Fancy Cache to both protect my SSD drives and to improve performance of all my drives. I have FancyCache .62 installed and configured for the SSD drives. A few questions now:

1. After reboot, if I open FancyCache, it tells me that it is active for my SSD drives however, I do not see in MSCONFIG where it is loaded. I also cant see any services in services.msc that might belong to fancy cahce. So, what services does it run and how is it being launched after reboot?

2. I used the default values for all settings but checked off ENABLE DEFER WRITE and set it to 60 seconds. Block Size: 32Kb - Cache Size (Level 1): 1024Mb - Algorithm: LFU-R - Caching Strategy: Read/Write. I do not have anything else checked off. Are these settings best for my setup and goals? What should they be?

Thanks for your help!
Kirk

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[sparkler]

1. thats because it uses a driver if the program had an option to start the gui on startup then it would turn up driver info is in \FancyCache For Volume (Beta)\drv

2. thats fine you can increase it if your pc is stable enough (no BSOD) and the data isn't very important as windows doesn't like having BSOD with fancy cache deferred write enabled it complains about errors in the filesystem

edit since you have 32gb ram try setting it to 4kb instead of 32kb blocks apparently the improves hit rate