Am I living too dangerously?
Posted: Sat May 01, 2021 11:45 am
All,
Have enjoyed this excellent software for about 1-1/2 years. However would like some advice as to how to best configure it best for performance and safety. Here's my system.
i7 10700
32GB RAM
250GB SSD C: Drive booting windows 10
8GB RAM dedicated as a L1 Storage cache space
500GB SSD with 420GB dedicated as a L2 Storage cache space (42GB allocated for TRIM operations)
4TB RAID1 WD Red D: HDD Drive data drive system.
Both the SSD boot drive and the 4TB HD raid share the same cache task. This task has Defer-Write of 10 sec enabled for the 4TB HDD.
Overtime the 500GB SSD L2 Storage cache space will be consumed to about 80% for cache with a cache hit rate on the D: drive consistently over 90%
The responsiveness and the benchmarking on my hard drive with this configuration is impressive as you will see in the attached screen grab. Reliability has not been in the issue so far.
1. Is the L2 caching space enabled with some sort of error correction in case of corruption?
2. Am I courting disaster by leaving my 4TB RAID1 WD Red D: Drive data drive system configured with a Defer-Write of 10 sec?
3. I have no UPS attached to my system but could get one. I'd prefer not though. I don't want to breathe lead vapor from a so called "sealed lead acid" battery in a UPS near my computer. Would the software be triggered to write its L2 contents on power loss by a UPS?
Thanks in advance for your advice on this.
Have enjoyed this excellent software for about 1-1/2 years. However would like some advice as to how to best configure it best for performance and safety. Here's my system.
i7 10700
32GB RAM
250GB SSD C: Drive booting windows 10
8GB RAM dedicated as a L1 Storage cache space
500GB SSD with 420GB dedicated as a L2 Storage cache space (42GB allocated for TRIM operations)
4TB RAID1 WD Red D: HDD Drive data drive system.
Both the SSD boot drive and the 4TB HD raid share the same cache task. This task has Defer-Write of 10 sec enabled for the 4TB HDD.
Overtime the 500GB SSD L2 Storage cache space will be consumed to about 80% for cache with a cache hit rate on the D: drive consistently over 90%
The responsiveness and the benchmarking on my hard drive with this configuration is impressive as you will see in the attached screen grab. Reliability has not been in the issue so far.
1. Is the L2 caching space enabled with some sort of error correction in case of corruption?
2. Am I courting disaster by leaving my 4TB RAID1 WD Red D: Drive data drive system configured with a Defer-Write of 10 sec?
3. I have no UPS attached to my system but could get one. I'd prefer not though. I don't want to breathe lead vapor from a so called "sealed lead acid" battery in a UPS near my computer. Would the software be triggered to write its L2 contents on power loss by a UPS?
Thanks in advance for your advice on this.