128G SSD. Worth using ISRT?

kirkster · 22 Mar 2012 at 18:41

Going to build a new rig with a MB with this feature. I already have a 128G M4 SSD and a 2 TB Samsung drive.

At the moment I boot from the SSD with all apps stored on it and data on the HD.

With new rig is it worth using ISRT? I read that it an only use 64gig... ?

What do you think guys?

Thanks, KS

jamesfreddie · 22 Mar 2012 at 18:47

Leave it as it is.

O/s and used apps then all the other stuff on the HDD.

wazza300 · 22 Mar 2012 at 19:13

try it and see,you can always re install windows on the ssd,i think caching is pretty good

Chabsy · 23 Mar 2012 at 09:42

I had a set up like this with a 128gb M4 I didnt like it and went back to SSD as boot and a larger non accelerated drive.

The performance is better I have apps and games on the SSD and media on the HDD

Essexraptor · 23 Mar 2012 at 10:22

wazza300 said:
try it and see,you can always re install windows on the ssd,i think caching is pretty good

But he would be wasting the vast majority of the avaialable capacity of the drive... so a waste really

Go with your original setup

ie SSD for OS and fav apps

Mechanical HDD's for data storage

gord · 27 Mar 2012 at 14:16

I've got a 128 M4. Use 20 of it for caching my 1TB mechanical drive. The other 100 of it is the OS volume which I have some key apps on too.

Gives me: Lightning fast boot and OS times along with common applications
Very fast games that are on my mechanical drive

Without having to switch games onto the SSD or buy enough SSD space to fit everything on.

thenewoc · 28 Mar 2012 at 20:33

I was having this quandary too recently.

What I have thought of as a more efficient solution, perhaps the best of both worlds, is;

Partition the SSD & HDD like so;

SSD P1 = <=64 GB for SRT
SSD P2 = what's left for apps / games you don't want SRT to dynamically manage but those you always want to be SSD fast.

HDD P1 = OS
HDD P2 = User Data

Instruct SRT to cache HDD P1, then it's caching the most popular parts of the OS and apps that you use most frequently that are installed on the OS system drive partition, but not in their entirety just the files that are used most frequently on the system drive partition.

Unless I'm missing something this makes more use of the SSD rather than filling it with parts of the OS or Apps that are rarely used.