Besides, currently level-2 cache doesn't support write-data. That's why you see big performance boost.įor level-2 cache, in order not to affect other applications' tasks, PrimoCache only poplulates level-2 cache when it detects Windows is idle. So later in the testing step, benchmark tools actually read/write the file from the level-1 cache. When you set PrimoCache's level-1 cache size bigger than the test file size, the test file will be fully stored in the level-1 cache during the preparation step. Testing step: Read/write the test file multiple times, and then calculate the speed. This test file is usually 1GB size, and users can change it by setting the test size.Ģ. Preparation step: Create/write a test file with a specified test size first. Thank you for your kind attention to our product!īenchmark tools such as CrystalDiskMark, Anvil, and AS SSD test disk speeds by following two steps.ġ. Here's the tech-support response, and XavierMace or anyone is invited to comment - names edited to protect the guilty: Also, it appears that whenever one of these programs shows stellar results exceeding ISRT, some company - Western Digital slash HGST for instance - buys them out, then doesn't offer the software.
And I can wait for version 3.0, because I'll get it free as far as I understand. Because of my mishap with the SSD caching volume the other day, it looks more and more like it is working properly. The statistics in the Primo GUI shows that it's being used. But if Primo's tech-support is being forthright about this, then I shouldn't sweat the minor shortcoming if the program is really caching to SSD.
I may look at the Trial version of EliteBytes MaxVeloSSD, after their tech-support answers some of my questions. The other one is MaxVeloSSD - a German outfit, somehow legally incorporated in UK. I've found some other options that do what I want: one of them - eBoostr - isn't validated to work in Windows 10. Here it is beginning after this paragraph in boldface. Checked my e-mail today and found the response to my inquiry with Romex.