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Move a browser's cache to SSD or HDD?

Browser's cache location

  • Set to SSD

    Votes: 10 71.4%

  • Set to HDD

    Votes: 2 14.3%

  • Set to RAM Disk

    Votes: 2 14.3%
  • Total voters
    14
P4-630

P4-630

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A guy on facebook told me you should move the browser's cache to a regular HDD.
I read on some websites, some say yes while other say it's better to leave on SSD.

What do you think?
 
If you spend a lot of time on the Internet, then those temp internet files are a lot of constant writing to SSD. For that reason mine is pathed to an HDD, and I can not perceive any real world penalty for doing so.
 
rtwjunkie said:
If you spend a lot of time on the Internet, then those temp internet files are a lot of constant writing to SSD. For that reason mine is pathed to an HDD, and I can not perceive any real world penalty for doing so.
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Did you set any specific size?

I just have the cache location set to my 2.5" 750GB 7200rpm Hitachi drive with a 100MB limit.
Chrome's cache used to be just over 400MB on my SSD C drive.
Should I set it to 400MB then or is 100MB just fine.

With using this in chrome's shortcut: --disk-cache-dir="g:\cache" --disk-cache-size=104857600

Here's one saying that you should leave the cache on the SSD:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/rkXAt47LoEI
 
Mine is set to 250 with Internet Explorer and is set to delete temporary Internet files on browser closure.
 
Face palm

The problem starts with "A guy on Facebook told me"
Leave it alone
 
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dank1983man420 said:
Works fine for me
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There is absolutely no reason to. Unless you want to free up 250Mb of space. Its not going to get much bigger

The thinking use to be the extra writes will damage an SSD but not anymore. That SSD will out live you platter drive
 
I browse a lot since that's what I do when I am waiting for my render to finish.

I just set it default (SSD) and couldn't care less. By time it dies, I am pretty sure newer, better, SSD will be at much cheaper price or I can use warranty.
 
I have an easier solution. Don't worry about it and don't bother changing anything. No need to.
 
Go to apdata/Windows/ INetCash/ right click on that folder then properties and see how big it is.

Mine is 18Mb

Why you would want to move it is beyond me
 
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I'm trying to figure out why you would care? I am coming up on 10 years of usage from my 32GB supertalent SSD's. One of them has failed in almost a decade.
 
Jetster said:
Go to apdata/Windows/ INetCash/ right click on that folder then properties and see how big it is.

Mine is 18Mb

Why you would want to move it is beyond me
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To preserve the lifespan of the SSD said a member in a group on facebook I'm with.

My chrome's cache folder was 409MB.
 
I think the preconception of SSD having limited write cycles has been blown out of proportion.
 
P4-630 said:
To preserve the lifespan of the SSD said a member in a group on facebook I'm with.

My chrome's cache folder was 409MB.
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SSDs now officially have longer lifespan than a platter drive.

Mine have 5 and 10 year warranties
 
P4-630 said:
To preserve the lifespan of the SSD said a member in a group on facebook I'm with.

My chrome's cache folder was 409MB.
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Nah.
 
I think this is just old advice from the very early days of SSDs when 32GB/64GB drives were typical. Off loading stuff from the SSD (temp files, cache files, page file, disable hibernate, disable system restore, etc.) was just to reduce the writes and free up as much space as possible. These days, with such large drives, it's not a problem IMO. :)
 
P4-630 said:
Yeah I was thinking the same thing, and I have a 10 Year warranty on my OS SSD! :ohwell:
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Really?! Is that the warranty for all Samsung's? Nice!
 
erocker said:
Really?! Is that the warranty for all Samsung's? Nice!
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Not all. 5 years standard, Pro is 10 years

Wait the 750 is 3 years
 
P4-630 said:
"FIREFOX IS EATING YOUR SSD – HERE IS HOW TO FIX IT"

https://www.servethehome.com/firefox-is-eating-your-ssd-here-is-how-to-fix-it/
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The official specs for my lowly BX200 says 72TB writes, which if 12GB/day means more than 16 years of operation. 20GB/day is like 10 years. On the laptop in sig I have 294h power on time and 2.381TB written ... but that is with several clean Windows installs and some Linux fudgery. Vivaldi on my desktop had about 4GB writes in a bit more than two weeks, but I'm not exactly a power browser.
 
firefox, windows temp and page file, basically any temp file go on my ssd.

so i only get 12 years out of it instead of 15.. no worries there as it will be long obsolete by then.
 
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