SSD caching on Ryzen

[NerdModeEngaged]

Hi guys, I have FINALLY decided to upgrade my storage setup, it currently consists of a 120GB Sandisk Pulse SSD and 2x Hitachi Deskstar 500GB HDDs in raid 0, yes I'm using two 9 year old hard drives in raid 0, anyway this is getting replaced by a Samsung NVME 970 250 GB (hopefully launching soon) as my main drive and a 2TB Seagate Barracuda Pro (for the reliability & extended warranty), anyways question being, would it be worthwhile to use my old SSD as a cache for the new hard drive, and if so how would I do this on the X370 platform, Cheers

 

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[SecretX]

Do you really need the extra speed? A brazilian youtuber has tested what is the real impact of the raw speed of NVMe SSD. The SSDs was: 850-EVO (1TB), 960-EVO (1TB) and a normal Barracuda 1TB.

 

Results? Gaming? absolutely nothing, neither ingame performance or load time. At Windows boot? Absolutely nothing, neither synthetic benchmarks or startup time. At big file transfers? Yeah it does and quite a bit! The only logical reason to get one of these Xpensive SSDs is productivity, if your job requires manipulate of big files.

 

My personal recommendation is at least 500GB of SSD, especially 850-EVO, which appears to be the sweet spot. 500GB would let you install the Windows and some games/programs there. Also the price (per GB) is quite nice.

[NerdModeEngaged]

2 minutes ago, SecretX said:

Do you really need the extra speed? A brazilian youtuber has tested what is the real impact of the raw speed of NVMe SSD. The SSDs was: 850-EVO (1TB), 960-EVO (1TB) and a normal Barracuda 1TB.

 

Results? Gaming? absolutely nothing, neither ingame performance or load time. At Windows boot? Absolutely nothing, neither synthetic benchmarks or startup time. At big file transfers? Yeah it does and quite a bit! The only logical reason to get one of these Xpensive SSDs is productivity, if you job requires manipulate of big files.

 

My personal recommendation is at least 500GB of SSD, especially 850-EVO, which appears to be the sweet spot. 500GB would let you install the Windows and some games/programs there. Also the price (per GB) is quite nice.

I am aware of the fact that NVME drives are currently offering very poor price to performance in the real world, however my reasons for going with it is that firstly I need a bigger SSD, secondly I need a faster SSD, mine is rather slow as it is an older drive and is an order of magnitude behind SSDs such as the 850 evo, so that is why I need a new SSD and the reason I'm going NVME is that they only cost about £20 more than sata SSDs over here in the UK and I just feel like that seems rather appealing, now I would wish to go for a 500gb drive but I'm looking at double the price and I simply do not feel like I need that much capacity as I don't game too much and the only things that would get placed on the SSD would be the os, programs, and light games such as Minecraft, I simply cannot justify that cost increase over the 250gb however the new 970 series may increase density and therefore decrease cost so who knows for now

[SecretX]

If you can get the NVMe for rough the same price of SATA counterpart and/or just want the fastest in the market, by all means buy it.

[NerdModeEngaged]

1 minute ago, SecretX said:

If you can get the NVMe for rough the same price of SATA counterpart and/or just want the fastest in the market, by all means buy it.

That is the only reason I am considering NVME if it was a fair bit more expensive it would simply be pointless however as it is not to dissimilar I can justify that, anyway who would ever turn up their nose at the opportunity to play with new tech eh ?

[SecretX]

1 minute ago, NerdModeEngaged said:

That is the only reason I am considering NVME if it was a fair bit more expensive it would simply be pointless however as it is not to dissimilar I can justify that, anyway who would ever turn up their nose at the opportunity to play with new tech eh ?

New techs are delicious ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

[NerdModeEngaged]

4 minutes ago, SecretX said:

New techs are delicious ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

It really is, I'm waiting for a 144hz OLED HDR ultrawide monitor, that thing would truly be the most awesome thing to ever grace this planet