SRT cache hack?

[Habeed]

This is just BEGGING for some experienced hackers to get to work on Intel's software. The 64-gigabyte limit and the Z68 limit badly need to be lifted. Here I am, sitting on an x58 system I bought new just a year ago, a system that uses an Intel SSD, and Intel won't let me use their cache technology to use my Intel X-25M to it's full potential.

Jerks.

Doing it the manual way, my Intel SSD has all of my standard programs (all software BUT games) and my OS and my documents. It does drastically speed things up. However, my games don't get cached, and more importantly I am not fully utilizing my SSD. I have to leave some space free (about 20 gigs is free atm) just so I can install new programs and updates and so forth without having to micromanage it.

If I could use the same SSD as a cache, and the algorithm were clever, all 80 gigs could be used all of the time, and those files I never access wouldn't be in the cache.

Then again, my SSD is probably less likely to fail than my hard drive, and all the files needed to do anything on my computer but game are on it. A caching system means that if the HDD OR the SSD fails I lose data. I think the way to go for a high end system is to have a high end SSD for your OS + programs, a Western Digital Black or other fast HDD for your games + media, and an SSD caching the hard drive.

Or those standard Dell econoboxes everyone uses : those would massively benefit if they all came with SSD caches as standard.

 

[groberts101]

you can do all that and more with Fancycache by Romex.
http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/fancy-cache/

And an SSD should always be allowed some free space as that's where your write reserve(stamina from remaining free blocks) comes from. Factory OP space can only do so much and those that fill their drives completely just to get that last bit of money's worth usually pay the piper in the end.

 

[Habeed]

you can do all that and more with Fancycache by Romex.
http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/fancy-cache/

And an SSD should always be allowed some free space as that's where your write reserve(stamina from remaining free blocks) comes from. Factory OP space can only do so much and those that fill their drives completely just to get that last bit of money's worth usually pay the piper in the end.

No, you can't. I just wasted 60 seconds at the Romex forums to find out that the SSD does not act as a cache that is persistent between reboots like the Intel tech. That's a pretty huge difference.

 

[groberts101]

yeah I guess it could be for some who want all the crap to stay in the cache on reboot. Most would be trash though and seems simple enough to rewrite it quickly enough on the next go around to make use of it if needed again.

And Fancycache is so much more versatile than SRT it's not even worth going round and round. This SRT program is just an infant/the tip of the iceberg and will slowly evolve into what Fancycache has to offer right now.

It's primarily intended for cheapskates who don't have the cash to move to larger SSD volumes. Basically just a potentially larger Momentus XT drive is all. Though in the short term I do see those who frequently access the same data on a storage volume seeing some major benefits as well.

In the end, the Fancycache software will have SRT beat in the fact that your SSD(of any size) can be used as HDD cache(hybrid drive) and your ram can be used to create a ramdisk for your C-drive all under one roof. That seems to be a huge difference if you really want to start comparing apples here.