use SSD to make system faster

P4Clock · 24 Mar 2015 at 10:29

use SSD to make system faster - well derr :rolleyes:

I have a small SSD sitting unused, and was thinking about using it for caching or ready boost
What is the best option to get the most out of the drive.

System as 2 x 500GB in raid 0, SSD is a sata2 80gb intel drive

DragonQ · 24 Mar 2015 at 10:37

Hmm, didn't realise ReadyBoost was still a thing.

80 GB isn't that small, you can comfortably fit an OS and several most-used programs on it, whilst shoving programs that are large, less used, or that benefit least (e.g. games) on your HDDs. I only have a 40 GB SSD in my HTPC but with every round of Windows updates space does get a bit tight!

P4Clock · 24 Mar 2015 at 11:34

DragonQ said:
Hmm, didn't realise ReadyBoost was still a thing.

80 GB isn't that small, you can comfortably fit an OS and several most-used programs on it, whilst shoving programs that are large, less used, or that benefit least (e.g. games) on your HDDs. I only have a 40 GB SSD in my HTPC but with every round of Windows updates space does get a bit tight!

yer i pluged it in an ready boost popped up, 80gb is too small for the system that why i have 500's in raid.

wazza300 · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:21

cache the raid array,it will use upto 60gb of the ssd

P4Clock · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:57

wazza300 said:
cache the raid array,it will use upto 60gb of the ssd

Cache better than ready boost then? ready boost is using 38GB

wazza300 · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:59

Yh caching will use 60gb

Orcvader · 24 Mar 2015 at 13:10

Another option is to use 40GB for the OS, and use the remaining space to cache the RAID array. Programs will still work if they're installed on another drive.

P4Clock · 24 Mar 2015 at 13:57

wazza300 said:
Yh caching will use 60gb

Thanks buddy

I want one drive not 2, so no SSD for OS

wazza300 · 24 Mar 2015 at 15:17

What you mean? If your os is on the raid array you can use the ssd to cache or accelerate the raid array

P4Clock · 24 Mar 2015 at 15:18

wazza300 said:
What you mean? If your os is on the raid array you can use the ssd to cache or accelerate the raid array

was saying thanks to you

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the other comment was to the other ppl saying used the SSD for a smaller cache and OS drive

wazza300 · 24 Mar 2015 at 15:32

Oh,I would try caching its just as quick as having the os on the ssd itself,just a few seconds slower startups but hardly noticeable

P4Clock · 24 Mar 2015 at 15:54

wazza300 said:
Oh,I would try caching its just as quick as having the os on the ssd itself,just a few seconds slower startups but hardly noticeable

i have used Intel RST and the cache is set up, you can 100% feel the difference

Very happy.

wazza300 · 24 Mar 2015 at 16:15

it should speedup over next few days as the 60gb of space fills up with most used data

P4Clock · 24 Mar 2015 at 16:47

wazza300 said:
it should speedup over next few days as the 60gb of space fills up with most used data

Yep i gave it a few boot's and you could see it get fast and the start up programs respond much faster and feel soother off the boot.

P4Clock · 24 Mar 2015 at 19:18

left with cache right without.
Wjhat happened to seq read on the cache? rest is all good tho

wazza300 · 24 Mar 2015 at 20:45

what ssd is it? if its sandforce controlled it will suffer in that benchmark due to compressionable or non compressionable data cant remember off hand

atto benchmark for sandforce drives

you mean lower seq writes with cache? it also might be taking into account having to write to hdd first then the ssd? idk how it works

P4Clock · 24 Mar 2015 at 21:29

lol yes i mean seq writes not reads,
but TBF i am more than happy. as you can see the read time's are way up. boot times are way down and load times of the app's i used are halved

bledd · 25 Mar 2015 at 09:13

Personally, I'd just get 256GB SSD.

That's way more than enough for any system. Get a single quick hard drive for storage.

What are your 500GB drives?