Can you combine an HDD and a SDD working together at read and write?

[Bull8t]

Can you combine an HDD and a SDD working together at read and write?

[tikker]

I guess technically you can RAID them or something similar, but the HDD will be severly bottlenecking the SSD because it's much slower.

[amdorintel]

5 hours ago, Bull8t said:

Can you combine an HDD and a SDD working together at read and write?

 

3 hours ago, tikker said:

I guess technically you can RAID them or something similar, but the HDD will be severly bottlenecking the SSD because it's much slower.

 

 

 

yeah if you have the know how and technical expertise you surely can combine the two to work together at read and write. it would be inpractical and the time invovled would be overwhelming but like everything in life, anything is possible with enough time and money.

[Hugh54321]

For windows, I dont know. I do know there are several solutions on linux. Bcache is the name of one. I cant remember the names of the others. On linux you can also put the EXT4 filesystem journal on SSD for a speed boost.

[Hugh54321]

4 hours ago, tikker said:

I guess technically you can RAID them or something similar, but the HDD will be severly bottlenecking the SSD because it's much slower.

I did this once. I did RAID1. Write went at the speed of the HDD. Read went at the speed a little bit faster than the SSD.

[Atmos]

Yes.

You can enable an SSD as a cache for a hard drive, but i can't necessarily recommend it with the price of modern SSDs outright. It will make short burst read/writes better, but sustained reads and writes will still be throttled by hdd read/write. A 500gb ssd is only like 40$ nowadays for something miles faster than a hard drive.

 

Getting into how to do it is a bit beyond me, I've never done it myself, never needed to, so a bit of google-fu might be needed to find a guide on your part.

[Fasauceome]

AMD has a technology called StoreMI that allows you to allocate an SSD as cache for a hard drive. It works the same way as optane and delivers the same result

 

 

[serverbasket]

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