Hello,
I am interested in purchasing an ssd drive for my pc.
However with the current pricing for ssd's I was thinking around staying within a 120-256gb range for size.
This ssd would be a boot drive and have common programs (except very large programs) installed on it.
My question is, is it possible to have another ssd as a cache a mechanical hdd for larger programs such as games etc? (therefore the system is an ssd with an ssd (cache) + hdd)
The reason is I do not want to install and uninstall large programs from the main ssd so its life is conserved. This also means I can keep larger programs on the main hdd easier and have the more commonly used ones cached. For example, steam games can only be installed on one hdd only and can take up vast amounts of room quickly. This is why I'd rather have them installed on the hdd and cache the ones I'm playing more often at that time.
I am on budget constraints and it would be cheaper to purchase two smaller ssd's and a hdd rather than one larger capacity ssd.
Thanks everyone for your time reading this.
I am interested in purchasing an ssd drive for my pc.
However with the current pricing for ssd's I was thinking around staying within a 120-256gb range for size.
This ssd would be a boot drive and have common programs (except very large programs) installed on it.
My question is, is it possible to have another ssd as a cache a mechanical hdd for larger programs such as games etc? (therefore the system is an ssd with an ssd (cache) + hdd)
The reason is I do not want to install and uninstall large programs from the main ssd so its life is conserved. This also means I can keep larger programs on the main hdd easier and have the more commonly used ones cached. For example, steam games can only be installed on one hdd only and can take up vast amounts of room quickly. This is why I'd rather have them installed on the hdd and cache the ones I'm playing more often at that time.
I am on budget constraints and it would be cheaper to purchase two smaller ssd's and a hdd rather than one larger capacity ssd.
Thanks everyone for your time reading this.