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Will the Level 2 cache for the disk prevent it from spinning down?

Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2017 6:28 pm
by geneo
I am setting up level 2 cache for the first time. I have the HDD in my system set to spin down after 5 minutes of inactivity since I don't use them that often.

Will the Level 2 cache for the disk prevent it from spinning down?

Re: L2 deferred writing doesn't seem to work on 3.x

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 1:35 am
by Support
@geneo, L2 won't. But do you enable the defer-write for that HDD?

Re: L2 deferred writing doesn't seem to work on 3.x

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 5:12 am
by geneo
@support

Sorry, I didn't mean to post in someone else's thread.

Yes, I do enable deferred write.

Re: Will the Level 2 cache for the disk prevent it from spinning down?

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 11:16 am
by Support
When Defer-Write is enabled, PrimoCache may prevent HDD from spining down too often, otherwise its C1 value will increase very quickly.

(BTW, I separate this topic from your original post which was in an irrelevant thread, making a new thread here.)