Tiered caching, it works, not anything more complicated than that.
With RAM prices its not really cost effective but on a high end build its just the performance that matters.
The system I built has 12GB of RAM cache, 260GB of Optane cache and 4TB of SATA SSD. I also use a UPS so I can do deferred writes.
The system presents as a single drive that is both huge and astonishingly fast in all use cases, booting, installing and loading games.
Check post #5 over here, RAM cache alone wont do this, not even close. This is the power of Optane:
https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/tried-something-interesting-with-a-u-2-900p-and-it-worked.419655/
With RAM prices its not really cost effective but on a high end build its just the performance that matters.
The system I built has 12GB of RAM cache, 260GB of Optane cache and 4TB of SATA SSD. I also use a UPS so I can do deferred writes.
The system presents as a single drive that is both huge and astonishingly fast in all use cases, booting, installing and loading games.
Check post #5 over here, RAM cache alone wont do this, not even close. This is the power of Optane:
https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/tried-something-interesting-with-a-u-2-900p-and-it-worked.419655/