Asus G53SW SSD Caching

hi,as it says on the title ,is it possible to partition the SSD i've (M4 256Gb) to fit an OS partition and Caching Partition?

and if so can anyone give me some guidelines to go through because google gave me nada...

thanks

 

What do you mean by an OS partition and Caching partition? Do you have a SSD and a HDD? If so, the SSD should exclusively be for the OS and most-used programs, while the HDD holds music, videos, games, etc.
If you only have the SSD, one single partition would be best I would think.

Also, I believe SSD caching is not recommended. See this guide.

 

i know that guide,but here is the scenario i've got a new 256gb m4 ssd from amazon last month to replace my current fully loaded 128gb m4 ssd,and the it also have 1tb 2nd hdd in place,but the transfer rates are horrible for the hdd obviously,so i wanted to make a small partition on my ssd maybe 20~30GB for caching and link it to the 1tb drive to speed things up a little.

that's what i have in mind now,but with no clue about how to do it properly.

 

Your chipset doesn't support Intel SRT, so that means that you would need to buy specialized software to use part of the SSD as a cache. There are some SSDs that are sold as caching SSDs that come with said software, i do not know of any that you can buy as stand alone, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. You're better off installing everything but games and your data on the SSD. A 5400RPM drive is perfectly acceptable as a data drive. IF you find it too slow and have games on it, them maybe a 7200RPM 750GB is an option.

Another thing to note is that using a SSD as a cache is very dependent on your usage patterns and the cache will only be useful for the data/programs you use the most, anything else that won,t be cached will still be slow.