FancyCache for Disk FancyCache is a supplementary software caching scheme that cooperates with system memory to provide data caching for volumes/disks. It improves system performance by transparently storing data into me
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A supplementary software caching scheme that cooperates with system memory to provide data caching FancyCache is a supplementary software caching scheme that cooperates with system memory to provide data caching for volumes/disks. It improves system performance by transparently storing data into memory such that future requests for that data can be served faster. FancyCache caches data on a logical block basis (offsets within a volume/disk) while windows cache manager caches on a virtual block basis (offsets within a file). FancyCache can also utilize the OS Invisible Memory which is wasted on 32-bit Windows when 4GB memory or more is installed. Principle One of the FancyCache's core components is a storage class filter driver which resides in the storage stack, intercepting I/O requests for data on volume/disk. If requested data is contained in the cache, this request can be served by simply reading the cache, which is comparably faster. Otherwise the data has to be fetched from volume/disk. Hence, the more requests can be served from the cache the better the overall system performance is. Main Features * Supports LRU (Least Recently Used) and LFU (Least Frequently Used) cache algorithms * Supports caching strategies: Read/Write Caching, Read-Only Caching and Write-Only Caching * Supports Write-Through and Write-Deferred modes * Supports OS Invisible Memory and SSD (Solid-state Drive) as Level-II cache * Supports caching for volumes or entire disks * Supports TRIM command for SSD * Supports visual performance monitor * Supports cache plug and play * Supports basic and dynamic disks * Supports NTFS junction point * Supports volume/disk with proprietary file system Why FancyCache? Why do we need another cache scheme since Windows OS has already implemented a file-system level cache? * Some applications bypass the file-system level cache. * Windows caches all data, while FancyCache can cache on behalf of a specified volume/disk in which users are interested. Given same size of system memory, the latter has a higher hit-rate. * FancyCache can utilize the OS Invisible Memory on 32-bit Windows as a cache medium. * FancyCache can utilize SSD (Solid-state Drive) as a cache medium, as ReadyBoost does.

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