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Re: Dual-boot Win7 and Win10 system with Primocache

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InquiringMind wrote:If your system is a desktop, why bother with hibernation at all? Suspend to RAM will be faster and, assuming your power supply is reasonably reliable, has minimal extra risk.
The trouble begins to emerge with someone like me, servicing two or three other machines on a network for family members, my own notebook, server and two workstations. I pick good power-supplies -- Seasonics. I discovered that leaving a system in sleep for days at a time puts a strain on the PSU. It's only a relief to me that the system that died in that unfortunate situation was about 8 years old at the time, but the PSU was only three years old. Oh-- I could always attend to waking them up and shutting them down, but the hibernation feature is important. I might set the system to sleep after two hours and hibernate an hour or two thereafter.

At least the family systems are single-boot OS installations. I won't use PrimoCache or anything else on those systems because the users neither care for any advantage, nor would they administer those systems properly for it. And I have enough to do already! :mrgreen:
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Re: Dual-boot Win7 and Win10 system with Primocache

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Just returning here and hope at least "support" has something to offer in response.

I have ironed out all the OS bugs and storage issues in my overclocked Skylake with the overclocked GTX 1070. I say this up front, because my clock settings have nothing to do with any troubles I've had -- since I tweaked, tuned and set them.

I must have already said earlier that I acquired a Sammy 960 Pro 1TB to replace a 250 EVO used in earlier caching "experiments."

Now I have determined that I may shrink my Windows 7 partition and expand Windows 10, but I have so much storage space anyway through the slower devices that are cached, I don't even look forward to that option much. But I'm getting more comfortable with Win 10.

So it occurs to me that I really shouldn't need SSD-caching in both OSes, and 150GB of the Pro drive is more than enough for my Windows 10 SSD-cache. Windows 7 can be fine with just a few gigabytes of RAM-cache.

Faced with the choice of putting the 250EVO into another PCIE slot for the same or additional caching, and even only with a prospect of losing 1% performance in my graphics card, I think I will abjure using it for now.

Why complicate too much of a good thing?
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