New(ish) SSD Caching

[n0¢yph3r]

So I am having a bout of insomnia the last couple of days (likely due in part to being excited about the new job and staying at a hotel without the girlfriend). When I get bored I tend to look up crazy stuff and I found something interesting.

I remember reading about using mSata drives as caching drives here and what it did for performance. It dawned on me whil reading that they use DDR2 memory onboard to speed the performance and I wondered about using RAM to cache our SSD's. A few google searches later and I found this. If these numbers aren't lying I have but one thing to say...OMGBBQ!!!!1!!

Romex FancyCache Review - SSD Performance At 13GB/s and 765,000 IOPS In 60 Seconds Flat! - The SSD Review

ok, now before anyone goes raining on my parade about "if you blue screen you can get corrupted data" blah blah or "it only works after the system has been used for a while" blah blah; yes I understand all of this.

The thing that I am trying to say is that for some of us, this might actually be useful. I don't have the time to run a comparative analysis right now as the sleeping pill is beginning to kick in (hope this post makes sense in the morning) but for those of you that use your system for extended periods of time like I do, I can see this making use of my 16GB of RAM when my VM's aren't running.

Perhaps some of you that find this interesting enough to try will post some screenshots of it in action with CrystalDisk? If not, I will when I finish work.

[n0¢yph3r]

Sorry mods, I know its against the rules to post twice in a row but having a hard time finding how to add an image when you edit a post. Anyway, here are two screenshots of CrystalDisk...

Before:


After:


Hope those go through right. If not, I apologize.

[kalisto2002]

This is an Epic program, and it really does feel like my laptop is faster

my before score was 220mb/201mb for seq r/w

heres my after