I can count them all on one hand, but this is the fifth HDD to go south on me in more than 25 years. Then discovered my HDD LED was solid red, with the disk activity on the dedicated media volume without any caching. I re-ran the channel scan for HD HomeRun PRime, re-set WMC, pulled one of the Silly-Dust HDHR'-s off the network, then the other - no problem.
#Eboostr windows 10 update#
Now, the update on my "latest experiences." My Media Center was freezing during live broadcast today. Please let me know should you have any questions. Currently I think you may just see the performance boost with level-2 cache in real usage scenarios. You'll see the different testing results then. In the coming PrimoCache 3.0 version, we'll support level-2 write caching.
So during the preparation step the test file will not be stored into level-2 cache and in the testing step all reads/writes will be completed on the target disk. 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.
#Eboostr windows 10 free#
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.
#Eboostr windows 10 trial#
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.