Non-boot storage drive and SSD-caching
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:52 am
Before anyone post anything please note that I am not currently interested in getting a "caching SSD" for a Hard Drive for myself, I was just wondering whether there would be any benefit. Example below.
I have 120GB SSD with everything on it that's important, I also have a 500GB 5,400rpm laptop drive for general non-important local storage as well as the full backup for my SSD.
The question is: Would there be any realistic performance increase by using a "Caching SSD" for the Hard Drive.
Judging by the way they work, the answer would be "none at all" as most of the data that gets written/read will ultimately end up on another drive anyway, or its my ever expanding backup of my SSD which is far to large to be cached in any meaningful way if it was even possible to cache the "data-writes", which it is not.
Can anyone confirm or deny my thinking without wasting much of your time.
I suspect that if I want faster secondary/backup storage I would be much better off getting a larger and faster HDD rather than sodding around with expensive SSD Caching.
Andy
I have 120GB SSD with everything on it that's important, I also have a 500GB 5,400rpm laptop drive for general non-important local storage as well as the full backup for my SSD.
The question is: Would there be any realistic performance increase by using a "Caching SSD" for the Hard Drive.
Judging by the way they work, the answer would be "none at all" as most of the data that gets written/read will ultimately end up on another drive anyway, or its my ever expanding backup of my SSD which is far to large to be cached in any meaningful way if it was even possible to cache the "data-writes", which it is not.
Can anyone confirm or deny my thinking without wasting much of your time.
I suspect that if I want faster secondary/backup storage I would be much better off getting a larger and faster HDD rather than sodding around with expensive SSD Caching.
Andy