whats the max l2 cache size

[gabrielmorrow]

just wondering

[idefix44]

It's the MAXimum free size of the L2Cache dedicated partition.

[gabrielmorrow]

next question is when i reinstall windows should i install it on my 1 tb hard drive and use the 256 gigbyte drive as cache

[Support]

max l2 cache size is about 1.5T

[Davey126]

next question is when i reinstall windows should i install it on my 1 tb hard drive and use the 256 gigbyte drive as cache

That depends on the type of each drive (HDD or SSD) and your specifc storage needs. All else being equal I would use the smaller drive for cache.

[InquiringMind]

...All else being equal I would use the smaller drive for cache.

For HDDs, smaller capacity often means lower speed (lower capacity -> lower data density -> less data read/written at a given spindle speed).

For caching to show any benefit, it needs to use the faster (and for a perceptible benefit, much faster) medium. So there's almost certainly no point in using one HDD to cache another (assuming that the 256GB drive mentioned above is an HDD - Gabrielmorrow's post doesn't make it clear).

[gabrielmorrow]

well to clarify the 256 GB is a ssd

[Davey126]

In that case you would want to use the 256 GB SSD for L2 cache (or a portion of that drive). You really get the best of both worlds - tons of cheap storage on your primary system drive augmented by a significant speed boost via L1 and/or L2 caches resident on faster media.

Alternatively you could go with the SSD as your primary and the HDD as a secondary drive for large or infrequently accessed files. In that configuration I suppose you could use a portion of the SSD as L2 cache for the HDD but that might create some significant performance issues depending on workload.