I bought a Z68 board a couple of years ago (Gigabyte Z68AP-D3) , but did not get an msata drive at the time. Thinking of getting one now to hopefully give a wee boost.
I don't want to re-install windows 7.
I presently have Win7 installed on a 100Gb partition and am hoping to get the SSD to cache that. (The disk itself is a 500Gb mechanical drive which has other partitions for the usual program files, pictures/games ,etc.) Would the caching system cache the physical disk, or can I specify which partitions I want cached ? I have another other disk which I keep for Flight simulation scenery files - would the caching latch onto that disk as well ( I don't really want it to as I am presently just trying to increase my initial system load times )
I am hoping that I can get a drive , plug it in (maybe click a few things) and the system will take care of the rest i.e. it will start caching my HDD.... is this assumption correct, or is there more to it ?
Most threads seem to imply that 60Gb is really all that the caching will support - is this correct ? in which case would something like this
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-007-PL be the one to go for ?
I have found some other 128Gb msata drives around, but I presume these could only be used as new fresh disk i.e. not for the disk caching ?
Any information would appreciated !
I don't want to re-install windows 7.
I presently have Win7 installed on a 100Gb partition and am hoping to get the SSD to cache that. (The disk itself is a 500Gb mechanical drive which has other partitions for the usual program files, pictures/games ,etc.) Would the caching system cache the physical disk, or can I specify which partitions I want cached ? I have another other disk which I keep for Flight simulation scenery files - would the caching latch onto that disk as well ( I don't really want it to as I am presently just trying to increase my initial system load times )
I am hoping that I can get a drive , plug it in (maybe click a few things) and the system will take care of the rest i.e. it will start caching my HDD.... is this assumption correct, or is there more to it ?
Most threads seem to imply that 60Gb is really all that the caching will support - is this correct ? in which case would something like this
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-007-PL be the one to go for ?
I have found some other 128Gb msata drives around, but I presume these could only be used as new fresh disk i.e. not for the disk caching ?
Any information would appreciated !
