TheMadHatterXxX
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Anyone using the 800p as a caching drive for their secondary storage drive?
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Well I forgot to run a stopwatch but I noticed a substantial difference in load times for Just Cause 3 and Witcher 3....it felt like I was running the game off my SSD. It's definitely not a placebo effect, they load up substantially faster enough that it makes it noticeable.
Doing caching with an ssd does improve load times (typically after second game load)
but price of an optane drive I would just get a 512gb or ideally a 1tb ssd (sata or nvme based) and use the hdd drive for storage (not games as that would defeat the point of getting a ssd, unless you got a small 250/256gb one)
But why do that when you can have one 6TB - 12TB drive that performs like an SSD.
I have a a relatively large collection of digital assets that are used for our work consisting of 100s of thousands of small and some big files (PSDs, textures, photos and few video projects).
I also have around 10,000 Fonts handled by Fusion that has its database stored on a Samsung 960 Pro - nut big file though.
The library is stored on WD Gold 10TB HD and its size is 3.5TB and growing daily.
I am using Adobe Bridge & ACD See to browse them and I wish I could somehow speed it up more. It is a hell of a lot faster than it was in my old PC but more speed would not hurt. The problem is that I can't store the library on an SSD (too big) so I was looking into ways to speed it up.
The most economic way to boost speed is going for SATA 1TB Samsung 860 EVOs that are quite cheap now, but are they any good for such a task?
Alternatively, I was thinking of getting an Optane 800 but what good will caching be when 99% of the time access to my library is random.
the samsung SSD as a cache it would work as long as the software doing the caching can do 1TB, but seem better if money is less an issue (more you can burn it to make more) the 850 and 860 evo ones come in 2TB and 4TB sizes as well might suit your needs better (but really mad to look at them prices thought)