CEP2 and HDD speed.

[JimF]

One way of reducing writes is by use of a write cache. And writing in larger blocks should help my Gen 1 SSD cope with all the I/O demands better (I hope). At any rate, FancyCache is in beta now, but free to try out for 90 days.
http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/f...che/index.html

One user reports that the use of delayed writes will extend the life of his SSD quite a bit:
http://www.romexsoftware.com/bbs2/en...php?f=25&t=647

I have used it thus far with limited success, since it likes to BSOD under certain circumstances that I won't go into here, but am going to try it again with different drivers. If you want to cache only a single volume (one partition on one disk), they recommend the Volumes version. If you want to cache all the partitions on the disk, or more than one disk, use the Disks version.

It is also discussed at some length on the OCZ forum with respect to the Vertex 2 by the way.
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...ght=fancycache

Good luck, and remember that it is in beta.

PS - It works now, using the Intel SATA (IDE) drivers instead of the Microsoft ones, and probably more importantly using the Disks version rather than the Volumes version. It was suggested on their forum that the Disks version might be a simpler algorithm, less prone to crashes. But whether it actually reduces writes on CEP2 is another matter, since that will probably depend on whether new data can update old data in the cache before it is written to the disk, or various other factors that I know nothing about. But at least it should help consolidate the writes for less "thrashing" when multiple CEP2 jobs are running.