So I’ve finally removed the last spinning disk from my main computer with the purchase of 4TB SATA SSD to act as local bulk storage. I also have a fast FireCuda 520 NVME SSD.
Now comes in PrimoCache to join the 2 together.
What settings would you recommand to:
Really?
I’ve used PrimoCache and MaxVelo for getting SSD performance from HDD. They both greatly improve the speed of disk access but both complicate the system, add additional cost and decrease reliability. There came a point where the software cost of PrimoCache was better spent on getting a larger SSD so a HDD was not needed.
Rather than using the caching software I suggest you be smart about where you store your files. Obviously operating system on the FireCuda and possibly your standard user folder. Then downloads and other bulky data like music and videos on the 4TB. Don’t worry about write endurance, you won’t wear it out, just don’t fill it too full.
In Windows and in Linux you can set the system so your downloads and music are stored on a different drive. There are different ways of doing this. In Windows it’s particularly easy, you right click Downloads and a menu pops up allowing you to retarget the location. In Linux you can mount a partition into the directory structure. My whole /home is on a separate drive.
In terms of memory caching if you have say 32GB then fairly quickly all your file access is coming from RAM. The more RAM you have then the more this happens.
Really PrimoCache has had it’s day.