SSD caching RST

[Chabsy]

I have been reading up on SSD caching. and it seems like this to me.

The OS should be installed on the hard drive not on the SSD, the drive to be accelerated would then be the main media and OS drive and all the SSD would be used for is caching.

You can only accelerate 1 drive so you wouldn't partion any drive as you could only accelerate 1 drive letter or partition.

Then it would seem to me that any SSD above 64 Gb is pointless.

I dont know how it works for anything other than Z68 boards

 

[Cold_And_Miserable]

When it comes to hardware performance PC enthusiasts don't like to compromise.

Why buy a 64Gb SSD when you can get a 128Gb+ SSD and install Windows on it?

Why use SSD caching with microsecond latency when you can get 24Gb+ of RAM and use superfetch with nanosecond latency?

 

[Surveyor]

Why buy a 64Gb SSD when you can get a 128Gb+ SSD and install Windows on it?

For some people the price of a 64GB SSD is as much as they can afford and 64GB is as much as they need (see below).

Why use SSD caching with microsecond latency when you can get 24Gb+ of RAM and use superfetch with nanosecond latency?

That's fine as long as you never turn your PC off.

Using RAM the cache will have to be re-populated every time you start your PC.

With an SSD the cache is still there after you've switched off.

Also it may work better for some people to have 64GB of very fast cache instead of a much smaller amount of very, very fast cache.