2018.7 vs. Your Disk cache size for Playback?

[ihate100bees]

Just curious on what others select as their disk cache size, in Setup-Playback Engine-Disk Playback in 2018.7 (Win 10 and 32gb ram)? I don't usually change this unless I will be mixing with a lot of plugins and tracks. but for all around general purposes... what's yours set to?
thanks!

[64GTOBOY]

Depends on the available RAM but i have my desktop set to 6 and the laptops set to 2

[ihate100bees]

With 32GB of RAM.

[abc1mce2]

I usually leave it at 4GB unless the session is of high track count and their 32bits / 96k or higher.

Even with that usually after stripe silence and deleting unused audio files 4 GBs is more than enough for music production for what I do in a 3 1/2 to 4 minute song.

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[BScout]

Disk cache is to take the load off of the hard disks/storage controller (ie audio file playback) by preloading them into a RAM "disk". I attempt to keep it so that my full sessions can be loaded into that RAM disk (so all the audio files in use are there and don't have to be pulled off of the hard disks after I open the session.)

I have 64GB RAM and 48GB goes to the disk cache at all times.

[albee1952]

I use 4GB(tried 10GB and noticed no change at all). Running a total of 64GB between dual 6-core cpu's(and pretty much never a session longer than 5 minutes).

[StillHollow]

3 gigs hasn’t failed me yet on mostly projects 40 tracks and below.

[AlexLakis]

Seems any size will do. And don't worry about running out of disk cache in the middle of a take; I've done tests and disk cache maxing out did not disrupt recording.