SSD for system drive + SSD cache for storage drive?

[kevsgaff]

Hello.

I was wondering if the as mentioned in Title set up is something that would work. Really would like to move from just spinners to SSD. As the prices are dropping a lot in the 60-120 range of SSD but not so much for the high storage models, my thought was a 60 or 120 SSD for the system (and a few key apps) and for the storage drive use a cache SSD set up.

Has anyone tried such a set up, is it possible and is a it a good idea??

 

[thenewoc]

At the moment I think the issue you'd hit would be trim and the sata controller mode. You need raid for ssd cache but this means you wont yet have trim support in w8 which means you'll also not have trim on os ssd. You'll also have an overhead of the raid orom loading in bootup which you wouldn't have with the controller in ahci mode which would also give you trim support. With ssd prices being low the cache option isn't as relevant as it was.

 

[randal]

I'm using this setup:

Boot: Sammy 64GB 830
Data: 500GB WD Caviar Black w/ OCZ Vertex 2 60GB cache

BIOS in RAID mode, speeds are very reasonable and no noticeable degradation as yet.

 

[wazza300]

if you make a 60gb partition on the ssd you can use that as caching for your hdd and the free space can be used for important programs,remember the os has to be on the hdd where caching is concerned

 

[steve258]

This is what I've done, initially I have just one M4 128Gb as my OS and program drive, until I managed to pick up a Kingston 128Gb real cheap. I'm using 20gb of Kingston as a cache for my 2Tb hard drive and the rest 100gb for games.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought TRIM is still supported unless the SSDs in question are in an actual raid array? So in this case the main OS SSD should still get TRIM while the cache SSD drive doesn't.

 

[passey89]

i just use 1 128GB m4 for os + programs and another 128GB M4 for games.

Its stupdily fast like that.

 

[randal]

If us using SSD + Mechanical w/ SSD cache in RAID mode were to run:

fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify

Would we still see 0 (enabled) as a result?

 

[boosfuk]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought TRIM is still supported unless the SSDs in question are in an actual raid array? So in this case the main OS SSD should still get TRIM while the cache SSD drive doesn't.

This is how I understand it as well.

 

[wazza300]

trim is supported if not in an array,which it isnt when its used in caching,youd still have garbage collection aswell