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General storage Raid 0 vs SSD caching?

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I have a 120gb ssd for a boot drive and some other programs but I need more storage for games movie and other general storage I only have put bf4 on my ssd while I wait and the load times have reduced drammatically so I would like to see this in my other games but I don't think I can afford to spend big on a 1tb ssd but I could maybe stretch to a 500gb one but dont know if that would leave enough space I have 300gb in games alone stored on another hdd so that would only leave me with 200gb so I thought I'd leave it to the community to help me decide any comments are appriciated.

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Mixed results so far anyone care to explain their reasoning I am still unsure about the best path to go.

My Rig : Zotac 780 3GB, i5 4670k, H105, M1211 650W, 8GB 2133mhz vengence pro, Mini R2, 144Hz AOC Gsync Monitor

Accessories : K65, Naos 3200, Superlux 681, Chord CCU1

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It's honestly not worth it to use a dedicated SSD to cache a hard drive unless you happen to have a 32 or 64GB one lying around. Pick up a Seagate SSHD in whatever capacity you need.

 

Since loading times are important to you, an SSHD will speed up the loading times of your most frequently played games.

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