Fancy Cache - High Performance - Reduced writes (Trim, No redundant writes) - Good by 'Write Amplifi

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Just thought you guys might want to try fancy cache out, it's currently a free beta.

Looks like I'v found a way to utilise my 18gb of ram. It's good for scratch disks, as you don't run out of space like a ram disk. Also good for gaming, as levels load (on the second time) allot faster than 3x x25-m's raid 0, also noticed gaming seems smoother, i.e. ZERO stutters or hitches and is now completely butter smooth in black ops.

http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/fancy-cache/

 

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There is superspeed supervolume but it's fairly pricey.
I don't know about the L2 cache as I don't really have a need for it.

 

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I'm tempted too... but not in beta.

Needs more reading

Understandable, but from my experience so far, 'Volume' beta 0.5 is rock solid.

 

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I see, sounds good.

I'm tempted to try this as I'm using an F4 as my system drive, hopefully I should see some good gains as it's 5400rpm....

Essentially, unlike a ramdisk, your OS/Apps is actually being cached.
With a ramdisk, your essentially only telling a couple of apps to write/read to it, with the fancy cache method, all OS/App writes are written to ram, then written to disk later. Also allot of files are read from the cache instead of your hard disk sequentially in consistent chunks.

From my experiments so far, it also speeds up 'real world' write speeds of my x25-m raid 0, as they are:
a) writing data equal to the stripe size. So each ssd get's given 128kb to write from fancy cache, also the raid controller likes the bite-size chunks that it doesn't have to split or need to do added calculations.

Note:
If I set fancy cache to write 256k chunks to my ssd's, it actually slows them down.

b) The writes are consistent in size, and fit nicely within the memory blocks on my ssd's.

 

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Seems like I've visited superseed before - can't remember

I'll have to revisit the idea of creating a hybrid system. Anyway L2 is what's very interesting with this product - L1 is nothing new.

Thanks for pushing me into looking at this again



Not really - but same principle.

Think of it as a ramdisk with a live passthrough to the physical disk

Another program that kind of did a similar thing was 'mft'. but you couldn't use it on your boot volume, and it slowed down sequential speeds.
Also it was tricky to back up partitions if you were using it.
It was generally used to solve the stuttering problems with J-micron ssd controllers.

 

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Personally I wouldn't trust any program that uses large amounts of ram to buffer writes. What happens if the power goes off while it flushes the write buffer. Throw an overclocked system that's on the edge into the mix ...... Worst case corrupt files and a trashed OS.

This happened on my laptop when it ran out of battery without using fancy cache.

Also, an overclock is pointless if it isn't 100% stable.