Extyra ssd

[dmargerum]

I'm starting a new build an have a 180 GB Intel 330 SSD for O/S and 2 TB Seagate for storage. I have an extra 64 GB OCZ Octane 3 SSD. Can I use this drive to increase performance or should i just stick with the Intel/seagate configuration

 

[alvine]

intel/ seagfate configuration. if you want to use the 64gb ssd and pair it with 180gb ssd for raid 0 the bigger ssd will act like a 64gb so you will loose space over some speed improvement

 

[dmargerum]

I thought i might be able to use it for some caching or something like that, but wasn't sure if it's necessary with Intel SSD as O/S drive

 

[djscribbles]

You can use it for extra SSD storage space, but I don't think you can easily use it for caching, since you already have an SSD as a boot drive (i assume).

 

[Dereck47]

Just use the 64GB drive as a backup or data drive.

If you RAID-0 a 64GB and a 180GB drive your RAID array's capacity will be 128GB (64GB x 2).

You won't see any performance benefits caching a SSD O/S drive with an SSD.

 

[dmargerum]

I thought maybe i could setup Intel Smart Response caching on the 64 GB SSD, O/S and progs on 180 GB drive and data on 2TB HDD.

 

[dmargerum]

Just use the 64GB drive as a backup or data drive.

If you RAID-0 a 64GB and a 180GB drive your RAID array's capacity will be 128GB (64GB x 2).

You won't see any performance benefits caching a SSD O/S drive with an SSD.

I wasn't sure if there would be a performance gain by caching O/S SSD to a SSD, Do you think if i put the swap file on extra ssd, i would see any performance gain?

 

[djscribbles]

You may be able to do so actually. You'll want a z77 board so that you get trim while raid is enabled (as raid is needed for SRT).
I think you setup a raid 0 array of the HDD and 64GB ssd to enable caching, but I've never setup SRT before so I'm not sure; you'll want to make sure SRT won't cache data from your 180GB ssd, since it's wasteful to cache data that is already on an SSD.

 

[Dereck47]

Do you think if i put the swap file on extra ssd, i would see any performance gain?

No, you wouldn't.

 

[dmargerum]

No, you wouldn't.

Thanks for the advice!