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Hey all
as the title states I'm about to buy a Vertex III Max IOPS 120GB for a OS drive *and* an SRT drive was thinking about splitting it so it's 56GB OS partition and using the remaining 64GB (I'm pretty sure the 120GB rating is taking into account reserved space otherwise I can cut a few more GB's out) for an SRT Cache coupled with a 3TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 as primarily a games drive (will probably throw some other stuff on there I am considering a 2TB to save cash but the 3TB isn't much more and I will use it eventually)
basically I've been poking around about this for a bit but there's a few questions unanswered..one being how much wear and tear will it add to the drive (the main reason for paying the little extra for the Max IOPS since it uses 3xnm NAND so theoretically a bit more long lasting)
The second question is will there be a noticeable performance impact from running it as an OS drive *and* an SRT Cache...if it's running data on both, I'm assuming it won't be an issue with the bandwidth on the latest gen SSD's but figured I'd ask those who know more ^_^
So put simply will running a drive as *both* pure SSD OS and SRT games drive cause problems?
(side note why can't anyone do a performance review of this >_< I brought this up in here before as to whether it was possible which people kindly helped with but still can't see anything on how well it works other than speculation)
Any help would be greatly appreciated ^_^
*edit*
AAANNNDDD we finally have confirmation this WORKS thanx to one of the lovely helpful members of this board all the details on how to set it up in the link below looking forward to trying it myself
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=31868683
as the title states I'm about to buy a Vertex III Max IOPS 120GB for a OS drive *and* an SRT drive was thinking about splitting it so it's 56GB OS partition and using the remaining 64GB (I'm pretty sure the 120GB rating is taking into account reserved space otherwise I can cut a few more GB's out) for an SRT Cache coupled with a 3TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 as primarily a games drive (will probably throw some other stuff on there I am considering a 2TB to save cash but the 3TB isn't much more and I will use it eventually)
basically I've been poking around about this for a bit but there's a few questions unanswered..one being how much wear and tear will it add to the drive (the main reason for paying the little extra for the Max IOPS since it uses 3xnm NAND so theoretically a bit more long lasting)
The second question is will there be a noticeable performance impact from running it as an OS drive *and* an SRT Cache...if it's running data on both, I'm assuming it won't be an issue with the bandwidth on the latest gen SSD's but figured I'd ask those who know more ^_^
So put simply will running a drive as *both* pure SSD OS and SRT games drive cause problems?
(side note why can't anyone do a performance review of this >_< I brought this up in here before as to whether it was possible which people kindly helped with but still can't see anything on how well it works other than speculation)
Any help would be greatly appreciated ^_^
*edit*
AAANNNDDD we finally have confirmation this WORKS thanx to one of the lovely helpful members of this board all the details on how to set it up in the link below looking forward to trying it myself
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=31868683
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