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Dekenizer
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I was looking to make a setup on my PC: M2 as boot drive and secondary hdd to put crap, plus games library... Right now my game loads on the M2 and instant load is awesome!!!  So I was looking at an optane to boost my 2T hdd so I could still get awesome load time....

 

But the down fall: optane is only for the BOOT drive!?!?!?!?  Cr!@#$!@#$!@$ de cal#%?@%$@5@%$ de tab$%@$%$@5!@$%?@$K

 

Is there anything else that caches secondary mechanical hdd?

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A regular SSD and some free software.

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Good  question. I may need something like that for my next build. 2T hdd as game drive

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5 minutes ago, Enderman said:

A regular SSD and some free software.

What software does that ? any hints?

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What motherboard do you have? 

 

if you have a 4xx series AMD board right now, you get free access to "StoreMI" which will do what you want with tiered storage to accelerate commonly used programs.

 

I haven't tried it myself, but a few friends who have say it works fairly well.

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2 hours ago, Dekenizer said:

What software does that ? any hints?

Linus made a whole video on optane an its alternatives.

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4 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Linus made a whole video on optane an its alternatives.

Cool thanks I'll check that out!!!!

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Well well well.... Guess I was miss informed!!! You CAN cache a seconde drive according to this!! You just need to have a 300 series!!! My i5-9600K will do fine!!! Youptidoo!!!!

Now I have to find the how to!!! 

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