Can I use my old 240gb ssd as a caching drive for my steam/storage drive (X370, ryzen 1600)?

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Earlier this year I bought a Samsung 500gb 960 Evo to replace my old 240gb pny ssd. Then I saw Linus's Intel Optane memory video, then the one for a 12tb storage drive, then the one for Ryzen (which is my platform) and he talked about Primocache which seemed to be the best solution for what to do with my old ssd. However, I then watched a how-to video on the installation process from 2014 and the guy said that it would only be able to use 60gb ssds. I did see on some others forums that the limit has been raised to 120gbs but haven't heard about 240 or 256gbs like with AMD's StoreMI.

Has anyone used a 200+gb Sata ssd with Primocache and had it work?

Ryzen 1600
Asus Strix X370-f Gaming motherboard
Samsung 960 evo 500gb (boot)
Western Digital 4tb HD (Storage)
PNY 240gbs SSD
Corsair Vengeance 16gbs Ram
 
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Yeah, I get how it works.
It does NOT give "SSD-like" performance to the entirety of the 4TB.
Only what exists in the cache.

If you're playing the same game and the same levels all the time, then that is what ends up in the cache space, and is read at SSD speed. Fast. Anything new....read at regular HDD speed.
Any writes get written at regular HDD speed.
You, the user, does not get to choose what ends up in that cache space.

But if you're playing the same game all the time, just put the whole thing...
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The point would be to give something like a 4tb hard drive, ssd levels of performance. Look up Linus tech tips for the details on how.
 
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Yeah, I get how it works.
It does NOT give "SSD-like" performance to the entirety of the 4TB.
Only what exists in the cache.

If you're playing the same game and the same levels all the time, then that is what ends up in the cache space, and is read at SSD speed. Fast. Anything new....read at regular HDD speed.
Any writes get written at regular HDD speed.
You, the user, does not get to choose what ends up in that cache space.

But if you're playing the same game all the time, just put the whole thing on that SSD, and have the whole thing be fast. Current level, next level, whatever.
 
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