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Just thinking this through. Planning on testing out StoreMI in the near future.
Was looking at my options:
1) Buy an Intel Optane PCI-E x2 NVMe storage drive, 16GB for $22 @ Newegg
2) Buy 128GB SATA or NVMe SSD, these are basically almost non-existent anymore, in these capacities.
3) Buy a 240/256GB SATA or NVMe SSD. These are more viable, with prices for each around $40 or slightly less right now.
But option 3 kind of begs the question, if you're paying for a 256GB NVMe SSD, why using it for caching a slower HDD at all? Why not just install Win10 directly onto the NVMe SSD? Wouldn't that give the BEST OS performance and quality-of-life benefits on that PC? I would tend to think so.
The only reason why I could think that 3 might be useful, would be if the intended user, was a PC n00b, that didn't know how to change or use different drive letters. (Believe me, they are out there. It's only a few clicks, but for those types of people, those are the hardest clicks in the world to do.)
Option 2 is basically un-economical, as a 128GB NVMe will cost you nearly $30 or so, whereas a 256GB-class one will only cost $40 or so.
Option 1 is intriguing, although Optane Memory (3D XPoint) technology is getting sold by Micron, and current drive prices may be fire-sale prices, with these devices to fade off into the sun-set. Also, these may be somewhat un-economical as well, as if they don't get used as caching drives, they are basically too small to use as OS drives, unless maybe a stripped-down Linux distro.
Was looking at my options:
1) Buy an Intel Optane PCI-E x2 NVMe storage drive, 16GB for $22 @ Newegg
2) Buy 128GB SATA or NVMe SSD, these are basically almost non-existent anymore, in these capacities.
3) Buy a 240/256GB SATA or NVMe SSD. These are more viable, with prices for each around $40 or slightly less right now.
But option 3 kind of begs the question, if you're paying for a 256GB NVMe SSD, why using it for caching a slower HDD at all? Why not just install Win10 directly onto the NVMe SSD? Wouldn't that give the BEST OS performance and quality-of-life benefits on that PC? I would tend to think so.
The only reason why I could think that 3 might be useful, would be if the intended user, was a PC n00b, that didn't know how to change or use different drive letters. (Believe me, they are out there. It's only a few clicks, but for those types of people, those are the hardest clicks in the world to do.)
Option 2 is basically un-economical, as a 128GB NVMe will cost you nearly $30 or so, whereas a 256GB-class one will only cost $40 or so.
Option 1 is intriguing, although Optane Memory (3D XPoint) technology is getting sold by Micron, and current drive prices may be fire-sale prices, with these devices to fade off into the sun-set. Also, these may be somewhat un-economical as well, as if they don't get used as caching drives, they are basically too small to use as OS drives, unless maybe a stripped-down Linux distro.
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