Best use of drives?

[Jeff7181]

I have a 1 TB WD Black drive and an Intel 330 180GB SSD. In the next month or two I hope to upgrade to a Z68 platform because I'd like to use Intels SRT. So, if I set the maximum space available for cache, that leaves me with 120GB of SSD.

I'm thinking I'll make a 120GB boot partition for Windows and misc apps. and redirect my documents to the HDD and install all my Steam games on the HDD and let SRT accelerate everything on the HDD.

Does this sound like the best way to utilize my combination of drives?

I also plan to have 16GB of RAM in this box. Is it even worth using SRT with that much RAM available for SuperFetch? My guess would be yes, and it would keep me from having to manually move games on/off the SSD to get the best performance as I play different games. Anyone have any experience with a similar setup?

 

[kmmatney]

I think your plan is sound. It's about he best you can do without going all SSD. I plan on doing something similar with my desktop computer, but since I have AMD, I don't have SRT, so will use the fancyCache program and see how that works.

My new laptop came with a 1tb hard drive and a 32gb SRT cache, but since I don't need much storage, I just replaced the 1tb drive with an SSD, and converted the cache disk to use as extra storage. I have to say that the SRT cache is not nearly as good as having an SSD, but it's about the bet you can do if you need a lot of storage

 

[Jeff7181]

I'll have over 100 GB usable space on the SSD even if I use the maximum 64 GB size for the SRT cache. I think that should be plenty for Windows and the non-game applications that I use. I wonder how doing full image backups of the accelerated HDD will affect cache. Is SRT smart enough to know not to try to cache everything that's being read from the disk?