Can Intel's optane memory accelerate a sshd?

[TrinimixStudios]

i'm running an Acer Nitro 5 (AN515-53-74JJ) with I7 8750H hexacore, 16g of optane, 12g of ddr4 ram, and 1tb hdd at 5400rpm. i am in the market for a new storage device but the price of an ssd is not in my budget. i am currently looking at firecuda 2tb sshd and was wondering if my optane that came with my pc would be able to accelerate the firecuda 2tb sshd. is this possible?

Edited November 13, 2018 by TrinimixStudios

[Acid Panda]

not really worth it. just if you can get an ordiary ssd.

[TrinimixStudios]

1 minute ago, Acid Panda said:

not really worth it. just if you can get an ordiary ssd.

1 minute ago, TrinimixStudios said:

i am in the market for a new storage device but the price of an ssd is not in my budget. 

 

 

[Acid Panda]

budget? how big

 

you can get  a curtial 1tb ssd for about £120

[TrinimixStudios]

1 minute ago, Acid Panda said:

budget? how big

well the budget is for my school supplies and tool boxes i need as well as warenties and ram. so around $250 CAD remains after i purchase them in January.

[Princess Luna]

Not spending any thing on Optane to save for a proper SSD makes more sense.

[TrinimixStudios]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

Not spending any thing on Optane to save for a proper SSD makes more sense.

kinda came with it

[LukeSavenije]

15 minutes ago, TrinimixStudios said:

i'm running an Acer Nitro 5 with I7 8750H hexacore, 16g of optane, 12g of ddr4 ram, and 1tb hdd at 5400rpm. i am in the market for a new storage device but the price of an ssd is not in my budget. i am currently looking at firecuda 2tb sshd and was wondering if my optane that came with my pc would be able to accelerate the firecuda 2tb sshd. is this possible?

a ssd is way better here. it doesn't have spinning parts, so it's better to take with you, and they are pretty cheap for the good ones. if you want to upgrade your storage, a firecuda isn't worth it. even a 7200 rpm would be better there

[Princess Luna]

If you already own it then just use it lol, too bad it isn't the 32gb if it were you could actually use it as storage, the Optane is actually an extremely high end(long lasting and superb write/read speed) NVMe SSD if you use it that way, I actually did I boot my Windows 10 from one lmao.

 

Any ways yes it will cache your SSHD that will already have cached stuff, it'll work but not make that big deal of a difference.

[TrinimixStudios]

3 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

If you already own it then just use it lol, too bad it isn't the 32gb if it were you could actually use it as storage, the Optane is actually an extremely high end(long lasting and superb write/read speed) NVMe SSD if you use it that way, I actually did I boot my Windows 10 from one lmao.

 

Any ways yes it will cache your SSHD that will already have cached stuff, it'll work but not make that big deal of a difference.

thank you.

3 hours ago, LukeSavenije said:

a ssd is way better here. it doesn't have spinning parts, so it's better to take with you, and they are pretty cheap for the good ones. if you want to upgrade your storage, a firecuda isn't worth it. even a 7200 rpm would be better there

what is the downfall of an firecuda?