Fancycache vs primocache upgrade#
Fancycache vs primocache free#

I never trusted Hibernation on Win 7 because it failed to boot at least twice. I dug your ramble and most of your strategies were news to me. Will continue to use hibernate though, since I tend to keep programs running between power offs and I donвЂ™t like my system on all the time (yes I know the arguments about always leaving system up or not at least, virtually, I keep my system on via Hibernate). If that is not allowed here, IвЂ™ll remove it or the Ops can. Not really concerned with SSD longevity as far as wear and tear but you can also all but eliminate that too but setting the PrimoCache slider to read only I left read/write active (80% read and 20% write) for faster response. All-in-all, I spent under $130 and at least doubled my perceived speed (some things quadrupled) with respect to file access. Hopefully it will be here mid-week and IвЂ™m looking forward to increase L1 Cache even more (right now I noticed, with what my system requires, I can only use 3Gs of RAM for L1 going to go to 12Gs once my new sticks get in.

Fancycache vs primocache upgrade#

Windows has already written 76Gs of data to that partition (and I didnвЂ™t allow it to back up certain directories since it would fill the partition to the brim if I did so lol).ДЇinal note I also decided to upgrade my 12Gs to 28Gs so I purchased 2 used 8Gs (matching at least I hope they are, but they are used) from Amazon for around $56 after the dust settles. For my needs, a 32G partition appears to be good enough for PrimoCache (since IвЂ™m not gamer) so actually using the rest of the 256Gs for a backup drive and finally addressing the Window nag of me setting up a background backup system.

Programs (mainly browsers use MyPal) launch faster and browsing from different sites appear quicker.ДЄnyway, I ended up re-formatting my new SSD, since, to 2 drives. Even my VMs (I use a VM as a sandbox) donвЂ™t thrash as I run them. Programs, like the GIMP (since I do computer art) definitely now launches faster and again, I donвЂ™t hear my HD anymore so itвЂ™s either re-launching from L1 cache or the L2 cache (i.e, SSD) I have no clue. I can only tell you my HDD barely giggles now (no thrashing at all anymore barely even hear it now). Maybe Fred or someone else here at AskWoody might do an actual technical review. Very surprised, after doing a forum search, that no oneвЂ™s mentioned PrimoCache before here since itвЂ™s been around for a long time (formally it was called Fancењњache). May not be SSD fast, but I just wanted to milk my system for another 4 years if possible (again itвЂ™s already 6 years old) and by then, who knows what the state of PCs will be like then. Many other advantages to using PrimoCache with SDD but IвЂ™ll let you all do your own homework for that info, but will add that if you have a MB that supports the faster SSDs, you can actually use Optane cache drives with AMD and IвЂ™ll argue that it PrimoCache is better than any implementation from Intel (from reading and watching videos from sources such as Linus Tech Tips).Д«oot timeвЂ™s also noticeably faster. Great thing about using the SSD as a cache drive is, if it fails, it wonвЂ™t harm your HDD at all. The biggest problem was blowing out all the dust. Anyway, file access timeвЂ™s at least 3 times faster on my machine now, and I literally installed the HD and program and was up and running within 20 minutes tops (more like 12 to 15 minutes but I wasnвЂ™t using a stop watch).

Fancycache vs primocache free#

They give you a 30 day free trial, but after just a few hours, I said, to myself, this program actually does what they said it would do and paid the $29.95 for it. I purchased a Hynix Gold 256G SSD (had great reviews and was under $50 (well after tax a bit over $50) from Amazon. I waited and read all I could over a period of several weeks before deciding to bite the bullet. ThereвЂ™s several programs similar to PrimoCache (not going to mention them others can if they like), but this programвЂ™s like the Cadillac of them all if you ask me. Did some research and found out about PrimoCache.

I really thought about replacing the drive with an SSD, but didnвЂ™t wanвЂ™t to go through the hassle of disk-copy or even installing a new OS and then re-installing all my programs. Decided to give my aged 6 years old (well it will be in May) system an upgrade.