Optane memory

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I was thinking of buying a Intel optane memory and a HDD for storage of files, rather than buying an ssd which would cost more but the dilemma is I already have an m.2 and an ssd, Would the intel optane memory affect the m.2 and ssd? Or is it possible to choose which drive it affects? Because I heard that optane isn't really optimized for ssd's and m.2's yet.

[Sakkura]

AFAIK it can only cache for one storage drive at a time.

 

It works for SSDs (including M.2 SSDs), they're just already fast enough that Optane doesn't help noticeably.

 

As for the effect on the HDD, bear in mind the Optane cache will only speed up those things that fit on it. So if you have 2TB of games and videos, only a small portion of that will actually benefit from the Optane. The rest will still be HDD-slow. Whether that's worth it over an SSD really depends on your use case and your tolerance for a bit of loading time.

[porina]

From memory Optane as cache only works on the boot device. It will also speed up SSDs as well as HDs, but the benefit will be much smaller and probably not worth that scenario.

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Thanks, Still a bit undecided though. Do you guys have any recommendations? ( Storage for files, games, videos, etc....)