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I have 2 x 2Tb 7200 Caviar Black disks. With DISK caching enabled on each volume I get excellent performance, deferred writes work nicely and are writen to disk during the shutdown process.
I use this as a Hyper-V machine.

I decided to try the volume cache software instead with version 8 on the basis that instead of having to enable a cache on each disk, I just enable it for the volume. However performace was woeful. I ended up disabling it and running 0.8 at the disk level again. Performance returned.

I selected the same options except block size. The system is an ASUS KGPE-DX16 with dual 8 core AMD processors and 64Gb ram. So CPU load should not be an issue.

Anyway I have gone back to disk caching and all is working well.

Nice system.

One question? Would you run fancycache or raid controller caching system, such LSI Cachecade 2.0, on your system. Just wondering on people choice.

Ok turns out I had to log some dmp files because it was rebuilding the array at the time and blue screened.
Probably explained the bad performance too!

I would run a hardware cache controller, except I was building to a budget.
If you can call my kgpe-dx16 asus mb budget..