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Hey Guys,
After watching an LTT video on Optane vs StoreMI I caught on to his preview of how Primocache actually outperformed them all. So I set about to test it myself.
My System:
Thuban II 1100T
Gigabyte ga78-lmt mATX
16gb Patriot 1333 ddr3
GTX 1060 3gb
240gb Sandisk SSD (SSD Plus model) on Sata2 3gb
2x WD Green 3tb on Sata2 3gb
My Primocache setup:
I gave Primocache 4gb of system managed (shared) memory, typical usage was more like 2gb
40gb of my SSD as non-destructive level 2 cache (99% hit rate after 60 days)
and all of my drives are being accelerated by this setup.
Performance:
What I noted was about a 10% increase in items that weren't cached in the Level 2 cache, such as new updates being applied etc due to the cache now write later feature, but the increases could be dramatic on things like frequently played games, such as League of Legends from my SSD, and steam games from the WD Green.
The seat of the pants feel though is kind of mixed, though I'm not on the greatest hardware what it seemed like to me is game loads, getting into a match, map, or zone for the first time would feel lag, like there was a 100-200 ms delay before the loading began, but then the load itself would be magnificently fast. For instance in League of Legends players I know on faster computers would be at 30-40% loaded before I showed any activity, but I would reach 100% with or before them (getting faster on successive runs as the 'lag' got lessened, as I suspect it would on a more modern CPU and DDR4 RAM).
So, I'm sure some here have more appropriate setups than me, but for my use case at least it seems well worth the $29 investment for the license, especially since my platform doesn't have a similar feature.
I'd also be interested in building a system to use this much like optane is used for Steam gaming quite extensively to good effect, I think pairing primocache with a large 6tb+ main drive and a 128 or 250gb NVME m.2 SSD might be a better use case for the NVME than even installing the OS or games to it.
Anyhow, I'll add screenshots below. Discussion?
After watching an LTT video on Optane vs StoreMI I caught on to his preview of how Primocache actually outperformed them all. So I set about to test it myself.
My System:
Thuban II 1100T
Gigabyte ga78-lmt mATX
16gb Patriot 1333 ddr3
GTX 1060 3gb
240gb Sandisk SSD (SSD Plus model) on Sata2 3gb
2x WD Green 3tb on Sata2 3gb
My Primocache setup:
I gave Primocache 4gb of system managed (shared) memory, typical usage was more like 2gb
40gb of my SSD as non-destructive level 2 cache (99% hit rate after 60 days)
and all of my drives are being accelerated by this setup.
Performance:
What I noted was about a 10% increase in items that weren't cached in the Level 2 cache, such as new updates being applied etc due to the cache now write later feature, but the increases could be dramatic on things like frequently played games, such as League of Legends from my SSD, and steam games from the WD Green.
The seat of the pants feel though is kind of mixed, though I'm not on the greatest hardware what it seemed like to me is game loads, getting into a match, map, or zone for the first time would feel lag, like there was a 100-200 ms delay before the loading began, but then the load itself would be magnificently fast. For instance in League of Legends players I know on faster computers would be at 30-40% loaded before I showed any activity, but I would reach 100% with or before them (getting faster on successive runs as the 'lag' got lessened, as I suspect it would on a more modern CPU and DDR4 RAM).
So, I'm sure some here have more appropriate setups than me, but for my use case at least it seems well worth the $29 investment for the license, especially since my platform doesn't have a similar feature.
I'd also be interested in building a system to use this much like optane is used for Steam gaming quite extensively to good effect, I think pairing primocache with a large 6tb+ main drive and a 128 or 250gb NVME m.2 SSD might be a better use case for the NVME than even installing the OS or games to it.
Anyhow, I'll add screenshots below. Discussion?