First post, by Zup
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So, I was planning to install a small (about 240Gb) SSD in my wife's computer.
The computer has:
- AMD FX CPU.
- 16 Gb RAM.
- AMD 970 chipset with SB950.
- Two SATA HDDs: one (1Tb) with three partitions and the other (500Gb, one partition) connected via a eSATA bridge.
- Windows 10.
The first HDD has two partitions. One small (about 200Gb) partition that have Windows 10 files, the windows recovery partition and a big partition hosting apps, games and (possibly) data files. The second HDD is used as a backup device, so it rarely runs anything.
So, the configuration precludes configuring the mainboard to use the SSD as a caché. I guess I'm stuck with one of these options:
- Using the SSD as boot device. It will surely boot quick, and if I put the swap file to that device will accelerate things (but that computer has 16Gb, so maybe swap file is not used a lot). The downside is that applications and games are on the other side, so the benefit can be limited.
- Using the SSD as software cache (via Windows 10 Readyboost). I guess that it will accelerate everything (including OS and apps/games), and if that disk dies I can remove it without any trouble. The downside is that having 16Gb means that maybe that cache use is limited. Also, I don't know if that kind of caché is persistent (the cache remembers data between reboots).
- Using as both a boot device and cache... can it be done?
How would you use that SSD?
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