Caching Direct Hard Disk Reads (in offline mode)
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 3:08 pm
Hello, I've just upgraded to Win10 to find out that Win10 loves to wake up my offline storage drive for reasons unknown to me yet. I have tried many ways including setting it to offline mode, disabling updates and then sleeping it but it tends to wake up sooner or later.
I tried this software creating a 1GB level 1 cache and 20GB level 2 cache and it's the same
Is it possible to cache the requests from the OS to prevent spinning up an offline read-only drive? When I set the drive to offline, Primocache shows the status as Disabled as the hard drive has no letter. Yet when I, (for example), add a new Bluetooth Device, Win10 is guaranteed to wake up the storage drive to search for drivers (and it's in offline mode).
I tried this software creating a 1GB level 1 cache and 20GB level 2 cache and it's the same
Is it possible to cache the requests from the OS to prevent spinning up an offline read-only drive? When I set the drive to offline, Primocache shows the status as Disabled as the hard drive has no letter. Yet when I, (for example), add a new Bluetooth Device, Win10 is guaranteed to wake up the storage drive to search for drivers (and it's in offline mode).