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How to setup a caching SSD?
So a friend of mine had a small 60GB SSD on his system, which just got
all filled up very quickly (obviously). So we replaced that with a nice roomy 500GB SSD. Now there is also a 1TB hard drive on the system. Was wondering if it's possible to repurpose the old 60GB SSD as a caching SSD, to help speed up the 1TB HDD? So far the stuff I've read about it, seems to indicate that there is a piece of software from Intel called SRT that did this for Intel SSD's on Intel processor & chipsets. Is there anything more generic available. The SSD is not an Intel SSD, and the processor & chipset are from AMD. Yousuf Khan |
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How to setup a caching SSD?
En el artículo , Yousuf
Khan escribió: as wondering if it's possible to repurpose the old 60GB SSD as a caching SSD, to help speed up the 1TB HDD? Yes. Google ReadyBoost or press f1 and search for ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost will only use up to 32GB of the 60GB SSD, but you can partition it into two and dedicate each partition to ReadyBoost, or use 32GB for ReadyBoost and move the swapfile to the same SSD. -- (\_/) (='.'=) (")_(") |
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How to setup a caching SSD?
On Sat, 8 Aug 2015 11:08:30 +0100 "Mike Tomlinson"
wrote in article En el artículo , Yousuf Khan escribió: as wondering if it's possible to repurpose the old 60GB SSD as a caching SSD, to help speed up the 1TB HDD? Yes. Google ReadyBoost or press f1 and search for ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost will only use up to 32GB of the 60GB SSD, but you can partition it into two and dedicate each partition to ReadyBoost, or use 32GB for ReadyBoost and move the swapfile to the same SSD. I tried that. ReadyBoost will not let you designate a second (third...) flash memory device for caching if you have a primary SSD. |
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En el artículo ,
Jason escribió: I tried that. ReadyBoost will not let you designate a second (third...) flash memory device for caching if you have a primary SSD. Googling seems to suggest that there are ways of working around that. But yes, I suspect ReadyBoost will be of limited value if the OS is already on an SSD. Like the OP, I had an old 60GB SATA2 SSD going spare that I wanted to reuse. It's gone in an HP Microserver as the OS (CentOS Linux) and swap drive, and the four front bays are filled with 2TB data drives configured in RAID. That way, I can upgrade or replace the OS without affecting the data drives. The SSD also fits neatly underneath the optical bay so I can fit another data disc or an optical drive as required. -- (\_/) (='.'=) (")_(") |
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How to setup a caching SSD?
On Sat, 8 Aug 2015 11:38:53 -0400, Jason
wrote: On Sat, 8 Aug 2015 11:08:30 +0100 "Mike Tomlinson" wrote in article En el artículo , Yousuf Khan escribió: as wondering if it's possible to repurpose the old 60GB SSD as a caching SSD, to help speed up the 1TB HDD? Yes. Google ReadyBoost or press f1 and search for ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost will only use up to 32GB of the 60GB SSD, but you can partition it into two and dedicate each partition to ReadyBoost, or use 32GB for ReadyBoost and move the swapfile to the same SSD. I tried that. ReadyBoost will not let you designate a second (third...) flash memory device for caching if you have a primary SSD. It hardly matters. Except for those with minimal hardware configurations, ReadyBoost is next to useless. |
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How to setup a caching SSD?
On 08/08/2015 2:51 PM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
It hardly matters. Except for those with minimal hardware configurations, ReadyBoost is next to useless. Yeah, so far most pages I've read have said ReadyBoost is useless and should be avoided. They've instead suggested other products like: NVelo Dataplex, FancyCache, and SuperCache. Anybody got any familiarity with any of these things? software rec - How can I use my small SSD as a cache for a larger hard disk? - Super User http://superuser.com/questions/39007...rger-hard-disk |
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