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Hello, I am planning on grabbing 2 ssd's, one for my laptop and one for my desktop. both of these ssd are going to be 128gb ssd's. I plan on partitioning the ssd's into two giving me 59.5 gb partitions. then I want to use one of these partitions for the 1tb hard drives located in each of the computers, then I am going to use the other partition for a boot drive. now the questions are, will windows have enough room and is this even possible?
 
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Here is a copy of my standard reply about caching:

There is a lot of misunderstanding about caching. A few years ago Intel developed caching for clients and businesses that could not afford a large capacity ssd. Back when the concept was on the drawing board, Intel hoped clients and businesses would purchase a small 10Gb or 20GB ssd for about $100.00 (Intel M11 ssd). Microsoft Windows 7 and all software applications would remain on hard disk drives. The cache produced a boost in hard drive performance but it was not quite equal to a stand alone ssd. Intel hoped that once clients saw the slight performance boost they might be inclined to purchase a larger ssd for much better performance.

Intel also researched the size of the cache all...
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128gb ssd x 20% overprovisioning leaves 104gb spage which formats down to 96ish; so ~48GB "partitions".

What you do is install the SSD into the current setup, boot it with the current windows, and setup the SSD caching first.
Once the caching is setup you can reboot with the windows install disk and install to the non-cached part of the SSD. Basically whats left after enabling caching.
Caching will survive the windows install.
 
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Here is a copy of my standard reply about caching:

There is a lot of misunderstanding about caching. A few years ago Intel developed caching for clients and businesses that could not afford a large capacity ssd. Back when the concept was on the drawing board, Intel hoped clients and businesses would purchase a small 10Gb or 20GB ssd for about $100.00 (Intel M11 ssd). Microsoft Windows 7 and all software applications would remain on hard disk drives. The cache produced a boost in hard drive performance but it was not quite equal to a stand alone ssd. Intel hoped that once clients saw the slight performance boost they might be inclined to purchase a larger ssd for much better performance.

Intel also researched the size of the cache all the way up to 512 GB. Intel determined that a 60GB ssd was the point where it made no sense to use the ssd as a cache for a hard drive. Instead if you have a 60GB or larger capacity ssd, then Windows 7 and software applications should be installed on the ssd to take full advantage of the ssd capabilities.

A lot has changed since then. You can now buy a 128GB ssd for less than $100.00. It makes more sense to install Windows, your software applications, and your most favorite games on the ssd.

Windows will use up a just a little over 21GB leaving plenty of room for software applications and a few of your most favorite games. Additional games and other files can be stored on a hard disk drive. Games can be swapped as needed.

I normally recommend Samsung solid state drives. Crucial, Intel, and Plextor are also worth considering.

I maintain the ssd database listed in the sticky at the very top of this forum section. Here is the link:

http://www.johnnylucky.org/data-storage/ssd-database.html

Scroll down to the brands and models you are interested in and follow the links to the technical reviews.
 
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Now what i am attempting to do is a bit of both, i want to split the 128gb ssd into 2 59.5gb partitions, then use one partition for the boot drive (and maybee a few extra things), and then the other one for a cache. To me it seems as the most logical answer because i get both, i was just wandering if it would work
 
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