On the test bench today are a pair of rather interesting solid-state drives. See how these caching drives perform in the OCC review of the Corsair Accelerator 30GB & 60GB - http://www.overclock...ir_accelerator/
Corsair Accelerator 30GB & 60GB Review
Started by bp9801, Jul 08 2012 08:56 PM
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 08:56 PM
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 10:35 AM
It would be a dumb idea to use those as cache drive when your boot drive is already a SSD correct?
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 10:40 AM
The best thing I like is their price.
One thing I should say is the ht e only con listed in the review (i.e. Drives over 2TB not supported ) isn't that much important for the following reasons:
Correct me if I'm wrong.
One thing I should say is the ht e only con listed in the review (i.e. Drives over 2TB not supported ) isn't that much important for the following reasons:
- Very few people uses >2TB HDD
- >2TB HDDs are not radially available in the market.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 11:06 AM
Definitely.It would be a dumb idea to use those as cache drive when your boot drive is already a SSD correct?
This seems like a decent alternative to using Intel SRT if you're on an AMD platform or an older Intel platform.
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 02:35 PM
Why would this as a cache drive be a bad idea if main drive is an ssd?
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 02:48 PM
Because it just adds an extra layer...it'll just slow things down.Why would this as a cache drive be a bad idea if main drive is an ssd?
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 03:54 PM
Yeah, if it's an SSD....it's not going to get faster with an SSD lol, unless the other "cache drive" was a faster, larger, and newer generation and the "OS Drive" was disconnected entirelyBecause it just adds an extra layer...it'll just slow things down.
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 04:59 PM
It would be a dumb idea to use those as cache drive when your boot drive is already a SSD correct?
Yes you will see no benefit .
Its better in so many ways. No RAID ARRAY to set up is the biggest one I can think ofDefinitely.
This seems like a decent alternative to using Intel SRT if you're on an AMD platform or an older Intel platform.
Because it just adds an extra layer...it'll just slow things down.
You get no benefit trying to cache a SATA 6Gbp/s SSD because these drives are slower.
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 11:19 PM
Why would this as a cache drive be a bad idea if main drive is an ssd?
For the very first time I'm listening to this type of concept.
Say if you are using Vertex4, and how do you expect the speed of these accelerator SSDs to be same or greater than those?
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 11:27 PM
For the very first time I'm listening to this type of concept.
Say if you are using Vertex4, and how do you expect the speed of these accelerator SSDs to be same or greater than those?
You get no benefit trying to cache a SATA 6Gbp/s SSD because these drives are slower.
It was already covered...
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 11:36 PM
Sorry. I didn't scroll through the whole page before posting. I saw that post & replied. :-(
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Posted 10 July 2012 - 03:13 AM
Other than the somewhat more simple setup - would you say it feels about the same as using Intel SRT? I love that the Intel driver automatically uses massive amounts of RAM if I'm already not using it (it seems to do better than Windows 7 in this aspect). Are there any tunables for the Corsair software to mess with?Its better in so many ways. No RAID ARRAY to set up is the biggest one I can think of
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