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Cache for SATA HDD uses too much memory

Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 8:15 am
by molitar
Ok with my SSD HDD I can enable cache at 4k and only use 116MB/s of memory. I choose 4k on my standard SATA HDD and what the heck??? 962MB/s of memory!

BTW it will only start if I cache at 128kb which is only 30MB/s of memory anything lower fails to start.. works perfectly on SSD drive but totally useless on my regular HDD's :(

I am going to try to see if I still have FancyCache and see if that has the same bug.

Re: Cache for SATA HDD uses too much memory

Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 9:05 am
by molitar
Ok I tested with FancyCache the LFU-R works correctly with FancyCache but not Primo.. so that's a definite bug. I can use small sector size just fine in FancyCache that I was not able to with Primo. Primo is just too buggy to even be able to be used for even beta software.

BTW I thought smaller sector size was suppose to have best performance but CrystalDiskMark Info shows otherwise.

At 32kb I get
CACHE: 1024
LFU-R
READ: 3033
WRITE: 2118
Deferred Write: 5 secs

I am not getting nowhere the speed the reviews were showing at well over 5K.