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SSD: How much space for cache?
Hi,
I'm about to set up an HDD and an SSD with Intel Smart Response Technology. My SSD is 60Gig and I only bought it for the ISRT purpose. My question is: Do I need to allocate the whole SSD for the cache? Or would it be a waste of 60gig? Should I allocated 20gig and use the remaining for other apps etc? Thanks. -- The Zero ST -- The Zero ST |
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SSD: How much space for cache?
Per Craig Coope:
My question is: Do I need to allocate the whole SSD for the cache? Or would it be a waste of 60gig? Should I allocated 20gig and use the remaining for other apps etc? I don't know enough to parse "cache", but I do have an SSD as my "System" disc. BTW it's the biggest performance gain I've seen from any modification I've done. Can't recall the exact nominal size, but I have it partitioned into 48.8 gigs of "C:" (System drive) and 25.7 gigs of "D:" for Data. Actually, all my "real" data is on a NAS box... but my practice has always been to partition a drive like that so that the system/applications are in one place and everything else is elsewhere - so that I can take an image and restore that image at any time with no loss of data. For the Windows XP and the applications I run 48.8 gigs is probably wretched excess. I've built an XP system with as little as 5 gigs and suspect 30 would be more like it for a generous allocation. Right now, it's showing 28.6 gigs unused out of those 48.8 - and only 32 megs are used by the #NtUninstall folders. But I have Windows Updates turned on - and each update eats a little more space until I think to delete the backup files. A little extra giggage increases the time between when those deletes are needed - although it is already a very, very long time even with 30 gigs. -- PeteCresswell |
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