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Intel SRT Logisitics questions

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lasserith

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So I'm planning on picking up a 120 gb ssd this black friday for my new build. I already have a 1 tb external from before prices went crazy that I plan to remove from its enclosure and place inside my computer for storage. The first question I have is exactly how I ought to partition a 120 gb ssd for use as a smart response drive. I was thinking 40 gigs for the cache and then the other 80 gigs for the system install as well as steam with all other programs going onto my external drive. Also: Should I reformat my external? What SSD is the price performance winner right now? I've got this drive sitting in my cart atm but I wouldn't be averse to upgrading to the gt or possibly even shilling out for the crucial m4 so long as I would notice a difference. (In real world applications not just in benchmarks obviously)
 
It's decent, as long as your motherboard lets you disable pcie power management. If you plan to use it as both cache and system drive at once, you might actually benefit from the extra iops/steady-state performance of the GT. The M4 is good if you're worried about compatibility and/or storing lots of incompressible data.

TBH it seems like there are no bad ssds on the market these days. Anything (even marvell) should be fine.
 
I don't know if "smart response" is a term for something specific like Photoshop or something, but unless you have a very specific purpose in mind I would say just use the SSD like a normal system harddrive. Put everything on it that you plan on using (but don't waste space with large media). Are you concerned about too many writes to the disk or something? SSD's are great as scratch disks. I once had a program get a memory fault and use all 6 GB of my memory. Windows started hitting the SSD as virtual memory and I didn't even realize it until I looked at the wigdet on my desktop.
 
SRT is Intel's name for their smart caching on the Z68 chipset. Essentially I wanted to put the essentials on the SSD, aka OS and Skyrim, then use the cache to speed up the rest that won't fit. How much space should I plan to leave open on an SSD?
 
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