Yeah, I know IRST it's limited to 64GB but SM951 doesn't come in smaller size so I figured I'll have the remaining 64GB as overprovisioning, extending the lifetime of the drive.
I currently regularly switch between 3 modern games (NS2:Combat, NS2 and CoD Black Ops 2) and they are all cached. When I change my gaming preference, games will re-cache by themselves. By using a dedicated install SSD I'd have to shuffle data around by hand. How is that better, I don't know... I mean, when cache is decently populated, cache/disk hit ratio is usually over 80% during regular PC usage. This means 80% of all read commands were performed from SSD and only 20% from actual HDD. While having 2TB of data storage available. Just a reminder, 2TB SSD costs over 700€. I've spent like 60€ for a cache that essentially gave me the same performance for everyday tasks. But hey, what do I know, right?
I might give PrimoCache a try. eBoostr is nice because it also allows exclusion of certain filetypes so they don't get populated in the cache like music, videos and other stuff that's sequential anyway and you don't really benefit from it other than wasting your cache space. But I think 120GB cache is causing problems to this app which essentially never was designed for this kind of use (even though it worked amazingly well with a 32GB cache). It's 30 bucks, I can deal with that.
@Pill Monster
This just shows you don't know what HDD+SSD hybrid cache is and how it works. And everyone is always so god damn smart about "how much it sucks" and they never actually tried it. PrimoCache is a block level caching software. It doesn't cache in RAM, it caches to SSD and then reads from it when apps request data. If data is cached of course. These caches are persistent and "survive" across system reboots. Meaning once it's populated, it gives significant boost for extended periods of time and is not just a one shot thing that makes low yields...
I currently regularly switch between 3 modern games (NS2:Combat, NS2 and CoD Black Ops 2) and they are all cached. When I change my gaming preference, games will re-cache by themselves. By using a dedicated install SSD I'd have to shuffle data around by hand. How is that better, I don't know... I mean, when cache is decently populated, cache/disk hit ratio is usually over 80% during regular PC usage. This means 80% of all read commands were performed from SSD and only 20% from actual HDD. While having 2TB of data storage available. Just a reminder, 2TB SSD costs over 700€. I've spent like 60€ for a cache that essentially gave me the same performance for everyday tasks. But hey, what do I know, right?
I might give PrimoCache a try. eBoostr is nice because it also allows exclusion of certain filetypes so they don't get populated in the cache like music, videos and other stuff that's sequential anyway and you don't really benefit from it other than wasting your cache space. But I think 120GB cache is causing problems to this app which essentially never was designed for this kind of use (even though it worked amazingly well with a 32GB cache). It's 30 bucks, I can deal with that.
@Pill Monster
This just shows you don't know what HDD+SSD hybrid cache is and how it works. And everyone is always so god damn smart about "how much it sucks" and they never actually tried it. PrimoCache is a block level caching software. It doesn't cache in RAM, it caches to SSD and then reads from it when apps request data. If data is cached of course. These caches are persistent and "survive" across system reboots. Meaning once it's populated, it gives significant boost for extended periods of time and is not just a one shot thing that makes low yields...