Is it to late to make a cache?

djewell314 · January 11, 2014

So I built my first pc and I have a 250Gb samsung evo and a 1Tb WD Blue. I want to put a 30Gb cache on my HDD but I already have programs and games on the drives and was wondering if it was posible to make the cache without corrupting my data, and if so how?

P.S. I'm a real noob when it comes to storage am an not sure what I am doing.

SubTract · January 11, 2014

at this stage you could do it with software, but the cache would be wiped and re-loaded with each shutdown and boot.

250GB is a fair bit of space. Presuming you're just installing stuff on it and not storing videos/games on it, it should be sufficient space anyway.

generally speaking the loading time gains in games (in my opinion <<<) is not worth the space used on an SSD. I would only install games you play ALL THE TIME, on the SSD.

I've filled just under 60GB of my SSD, and to be fair a lot of that is crap that doesn't need to be there.

Edit: with a quick 5 minute clean up, down to 40GB of used space on my 240GB ssd.

You might find 250GB is enough for anything that you were considering caching on the drive, stored locally.

Caching will also reduce the life of your ssd.

djewell314 · January 13, 2014

at this stage you could do it with software, but the cache would be wiped and re-loaded with each shutdown and boot.

250GB is a fair bit of space. Presuming you're just installing stuff on it and not storing videos/games on it, it should be sufficient space anyway.

generally speaking the loading time gains in games (in my opinion <<<) is not worth the space used on an SSD. I would only install games you play ALL THE TIME, on the SSD.

I've filled just under 60GB of my SSD, and to be fair a lot of that is crap that doesn't need to be there.

Edit: with a quick 5 minute clean up, down to 40GB of used space on my 240GB ssd.

You might find 250GB is enough for anything that you were considering caching on the drive, stored locally.

Caching will also reduce the life of your ssd.