Barracuda + Optane or Firecuda

[Sajor]

So you can get:

 

2TB of Barracuda + Optane (32 GB) for: $142

or 

2TB of Firecuda for: $104

 

Which one is faster? And can you pair Optane with Firecuda? Cache the cache?

 

 

 

 

[WereCat]

SSHDs are not worth it. Get Optane + Barracuda, or just Barracuda + SSD.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Well the first hurdle is do you have a Kaby Lake CPU? If not, you can't use Optane.

 

Otherwise assuming that you're getting the Optane at about $75, you could buy yourself a 120GB SSD and ensure that the things you want to load fast are there. The only benefit I see with Optane is you don't have to manage that yourself, but you still have to give the system time to figure out what should live on the SSD.

[Sajor]

7 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Well the first hurdle is do you have a Kaby Lake CPU? If not, you can't use Optane.

 

Otherwise assuming that you're getting the Optane at about $75, you could buy yourself a 120GB SSD and ensure that the things you want to load fast are there. The only benefit I see with Optane is you don't have to manage that yourself, but you still have to give the system time to figure out what should live on the SSD.

Right, but what I'm trying to speed up is a mechanical drive, I won't be using this to boot up just for gaming files. That's why I'm not even comparing it to a $700 2TB SSD. In other words if you can have a 2TB SSD proxy for $142 that sounds like a deal to me. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

15 minutes ago, Sajor said:

Right, but what I'm trying to speed up is a mechanical drive, I won't be using this to boot up just for gaming files. That's why I'm not even comparing it to a $700 2TB SSD. 

Unless you're playing the same games, caching wouldn't really benefit you.

[Sajor]

2 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Unless you're playing the same games, caching wouldn't really benefit you.

Exactly, since this is dynamically done, and you never go through 2TB of data at once.