lockrob2000 Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 Sorry for what may be a stoopid question.....but- Can an Intel 660p Series M.2 2280 1TB PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 3D2, QLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) be used as a cache drive? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 Yes, but note that write performance will suffer since it's QLC. Quote Link to comment
lockrob2000 Posted July 2, 2019 Author Share Posted July 2, 2019 Thank you for the response. Would the speed make that much of a difference in a cache drive? Wikipedia shows it as the slowest choice, but doesn't show a speed comparison. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 (edited) IIRC sustained write speed once the small SLC cache is full drops to 100MB/s, so slower than a fast HDD, if that's acceptable or not depends mostly on your use case, reads are still fast. Edited July 2, 2019 by johnnie.black Quote Link to comment
lockrob2000 Posted July 2, 2019 Author Share Posted July 2, 2019 Thank you so much, that helps a lot. Think I'll just use a good HDD. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 9 minutes ago, lockrob2000 said: Think I'll just use a good HDD. That's good if cache will be mostly used for data transfer, if you're going to run VMs any SSD is much faster mostly because of the random access performance difference. Quote Link to comment
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