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Will an SSD cache be advisable?

aneil1998
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I somehow ended up googling increasing hdd speed(because boredom) and ended up finding out about using an SSD cache with my HDD and was wondering if it will be advisable. I currently have a 120GB ssd, so i would use that as the cache and get a 240gb SSD to use as my main drive.

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Sounds needlessly complex to be honest. 

So you'll have a 120GB and and 240GB SSD drive and then another HDD? It seems more logical to just use the SSDs for your boot and program files and the HDD for storage that doesn't need to be that fast

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1 minute ago, VVoltor said:

Sounds needlessly complex to be honest. 

So you'll have a 120GB and and 240GB SSD drive and then another HDD? It seems more logical to just use the SSDs for your boot and program files and the HDD for storage that doesn't need to be that fast

I currently have a 3TB drive that have 800GB free. That's why i was interested in using an SSD cache.

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17 hours ago, aneil1998 said:

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Hey there aneil1998,

 

This is an interesting topic that heavily depends on the things you do with your storage. Have in mind that there are two major things to consider here: 
- Do you need all of your storage performing a bit faster or part of it perform a lot faster and the other major part to have a regular performance.
- When it comes to caching you don't really have the choice of selecting what goes on the cached part and what runs off the HDD. The software does that for you based on what is mostly used on your system. 

 

I'd start with considering what types of things do you run on your computer as most usages don't really benefit from running off a faster storage such as office programs, games, media files or browsers. I would always prefer to have my OS and the really demanding things solely on the SSD and that I choose what goes there and stays there at full performance over have the SSD cache the mostly used applications and files and store their files for slightly better performance and have no influence over that as well as the greater risk for my data of having everything cached and on a single drive. :)

 

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