I'm building my first gaming computer soon, and I have some parts already bought.Recently I found about how you can partition some of your SSD space to work along with your harddrive. I'm getting a 32GB boot SSD and a 2TB storage drive. I'm installing Windows 7 Home Premium and I don't really know how it works or how big the benefit will be. I'll be doing some research on my own of course, but I just wanted to make a post on the forum to get a few opinions from the people here.
If the parts help here's my build.
120gb SSD is the minimum really for caching. 32GB you'll barely fit windows on it and you'll have to move My Documents folder over to you're 2TB drive as this is where your saved games will have to go.
Minimum required space for caching is 18GB, after formatting 32GB you'll have about 28GB usable. Windows can easily use 16GB after drivers, browsers and Windows updates.
just use the entire 32gb ssd as a cache drive - otherwise your OS install will fill the drive and all your programs will not get the benefit of the ssd as they wont fit - if you cache the ssd to the mechanical drive everything will get a bit of a boost
Also, keep in mind that caching will only work for Intel builds.
Yeah and what they said.
Say partition 200gb of your 2TB for Windows and simply cache that and maybe a game or 2. The only games that would be worth caching are big games like Skyrim. May eliminate or reduce stuttering when moving between cells.