Will Optane work well in my case?

[vascobrissos14]

I'm getting a new laptop and it comes with a 250GB M.2 SSD (SATA III).

This isn't enough for me though and I'm going to insert a 1TB HDD I have.

Now, the HDD works really well but it's a HDD and it's slow on read times and I'd like to improve that for work files and games loading times.

I saw that the laptop has 2 M.2 slots and one of them is PCI-E.

Will putting an Optane work to improve read times on my HDD? 

The CPU is from 8th Gen and the Chipset is a 300 series.

I think it should work but since I never used Optane, I came here to ask your guy's opinion.

One more thing, do you think 16GB is fine or should I try to get the money and get the 32GB? Is it worth it?

 

Laptop: http://www.inphtech.pt/especificacoes-n5/

 

Thanks

[Enderman]

Optane is stupid.

Either buy a faster HDD or save up for a larger or another SSD.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Yep it should work fine here. Most tests show the 16gb module as fine for most consumer uses. The algotherm is pretty smart about the cache it needs.

 

Just make sure the laptop supports optane, you need motherboard support aswell as the new cpu and chipset, or buy the drive from a place that lets you return the drive.

 

You can also use other drives for caching, but the intel optane software is pretty easy to use.

[narrdarr]

you could use a sshd

[porina]

Given SSD pricing continuing to fall, is it much of a stretch to get a 480-ish GB SSD instead of the Optane module? If so, then you can install the more performance critical games on that, and still keep the HD in reserve for other non-performance data.

 

See you're in Portugal, so wonder if your pricing isn't that different from UK. Here, looking at one supplier for indication, 16GB Optane is £29, 32GB is £44. There have been retailer sales quite often where 480GB size class SSDs were just over £50.

[NunoLava1998]

Just keep the M.2 drive and use it as a boot/game drive...