How should Intel Turbo Memory NVCACHE partitions be sized?

[alsoknownas]

Hola,

If anyone is curious what that NVCACHE partition is doing on your hard drive setup, so was I. It's part of the infamous Intel Turbo Memory gimmick (also known as Robson).

I have found no info on what it's actually used for. I thought the whole idea of the 1GB NAND chip that Intel was pushing was that you would need FEWER writes to the HDD. Sheesh.

If anyone has any information about how this partition should be sized, or formatted, it would be great to circulate that to this forum. Even the MS forums are clueless.

Just as a reference point: My 1GB chip has a screwy 513MB partition associated with it. Apparently, if you're constantly getting "disk is almost full" warnings, you're supposed to reduce the size to 450MB or below.

Thanks,

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