Primo Cache

[petersmart]

I don't know if it would make any difference to the speed of processing your photos but I've been playing with a program called Primo Cache which allows you to create a cache in some memory and an L2 cache on an NVME SSD etc.
It produced some insane speeds on the computers I tested it on - mostly HP workstations etc and allowed file transfers at up to 1.5 GB/Sec from an NVME to a RAID 0 array running at 500 mb/sec normally.
Of course this does not reflect the real speed of the machine, but it's rather like the Samsung Rapid mode which does the same kind of thing.
I'd be interested in any results you may have in a real world situation running PhotoShop and Lightroom.

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

Every so often this idea comes along. The first one I ran into was for the original IBM PC in the early 1980s. Since then, I've seen them touted for most operating systems and they do seem to suit at least some applications. In general, they begin to be less useful when they run into much bigger than expected files which stress the underlying hardware.

 

[petersmart]

Every so often this idea comes along. The first one I ran into was for the original IBM PC in the early 1980s. Since then, I've seen them touted for most operating systems and they do seem to suit at least some applications. In general, they begin to be less useful when they run into much bigger than expected files which stress the underlying hardware.

Well I've tried files ranging from about 200 mb to over 30GB and they all transferred very rapidly.
That was on Z800 machines and a Z840 with RAM from 40Gb to 128 GB.
As I said I just wanted to see whether it made any real impact in real world situations.
Since it's free to try for a month you can't really lose out.
After a month it simply de-activates unless you buy it..

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

Well I've tried files ranging from about 200 mb to over 30GB and they all transferred very rapidly.

It's good to hear that 40 years of development has had a positive effect on the technology!