SSD Caching for HDD

[DevilsBird]

Hello LTT Forum, I had a question about caching a 2 Tb HDD with a 256Gb M.2 SSD. I have an older Seagate 7200rpm hard drive for my main game storage and a 256 Gb Samsung 970 Evo Plus that I was gifted. I am planning on purchasing a new 1 Tb ssd like an 860 EVO, 970 EVO, or 665p so I can finally fit games like Call of Duty onto my SSD. Since I have this extra ssd, is it worth it to set up the drive as a cache for my HDD or just continue using it as extra storage for some games. I am leaning towards using it to cache my drive but I don't know if the performance benefits are worth it when I could store 5-10 games on the small ssd instead. I am running a Ryzen 7 1700X on a Gigabyte Aorus Elite V2 so I would likely use StoreMI to do this. Additionally, I have 2x8 Gb of 3200 Mhz ram from G.Skill.

[Ydfhlx]

It depends. If you would use games from SSD equally often as those from HHD, I'd set up caching. If some you play more often than those on HDD but won't fit fit onto the new 1TB SSD, I wouldn't.