You'd do better choosing an NVME of whatever size you want for a cache drive. Unless you're using very old hardware, it no longer makes sense to use an SATA SSD as a caching drive. Somebody mentioned in a recent post their reticence about using RAM-caching, particularly in tandem with L2 or SSD caching. But it doesn't take that long to refill them. There are very few circumstances where you might want to flush the caches. I never lost data, never corrupted a disk, and the problem with the feature update was quickly rectified. The only troubles I've ever encountered related to big-time feature upgrade/updates to Windows 10. These days, that's only two Mexican dinners.ĭoes it create problems? I can say what those might be, but for the price and at minimum, it 'does no harm'.

That being said, the license for a single PC is a lifetime offering that only costs about $30 or so. So PrimoCache is something I use on all my PCs, old and new, in whatever ways the hardware allows. And I like to do a lot of tweaking and testing before a new system becomes 'fully operational'. I don't like so much the prospect of rebuilding software configurations or moving data, although there are ways to make that easier. Like my car, I like getting some mileage out of the hardware. I'm not in that much of a hurry to update my systems from my Z170 chips and quad-core Skylake/Kabys. However, if you have a mix of storage devices or find it convenient to include SATA SSDs and HDDs, you might then want Primo-Cache to speed up those bottlenecks in conjunct with your 980 Pros/EVOs and your RAM. Or, weighing 'need' versus 'want', there's not much need. At that point, you could say you have no need for PrimoCache. Today, of course, you can find the right motherboard, chipset and processor to use with a Sammy Pro 980 - supposedly to avail of those high benchmark sequential reads of 7,000 MB/s. The benefits may seem marginal, and a matter of convenience.

In another thread, I posted a linked PDF white-paper that Romex had published concerning the use of PrimoCache with Optane. A lot of members probably associate me with the software as an avid user.

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