I succumbed!!

[edgedemon]

After buying a x79 sabertooth mobo, I had a result and convinced my uncle to swap his Rampage Extreme for my sabertooth as he wasn't going to overclock at all, so with a little bit of cash and a promise to help him with his build, he agreed. A great result for both of us, and Im very happy, the R4E looks absolutely gorgeous, I cant stop looking at it!
I haven't started my build yet as Im having to re-braid all my cables to fit in with my new colour scheme :(, but I have started my uncles build and have a question over Asus SSD caching technology.
Im setting him up with 2 x SSD in raid 0 for the OS and some apps and he has a 2TB drive for storage and the rest of his applications including games - he has a 600Gb games folder..
Can I use Asus SSD caching to speed up access to the storage drive, or is it only for using with a mechanical drive that has an OS on? Can it be used with any mecahical drive in the system?
Im hoping I can use the RAID 0 for a more responsive OS and minimise the bottleneck of mechanical storage by using your SSD caching technology with the storage drive?

Wanna get this build done so i can start on mine as that board is calling me!


Thanks

[HiVizMan]

Yes I understand that it is not for the OS.

A storage drive that is being accessed has that data which is often accessed stored in the system cache location. Therefore if you have a SSD as your OS drive and your cache is located on the SSD drives (by default it will be) the speed gains are already present. By creating a separate SSD cache what you do is change the location of the system cache that is all. So it will be moved from the OS SSD to a cache SSD. Personally do not see the point or any benefit by doing so.

[edgedemon]

Ahh, now I understand - I mistakenly believed that by using the SSD caching function, i would be creating an SSD cache that would only be used by that mechanical drive as they were linked in the BIOS set up.
I didn't realise that eneabling that function moved the cache for my entire system, I thought the OS cache would remain on my RAID 0 SSD's

Thanks for clearing that up - looks like I have a spare SSD now 😉