RAM as L2 Cache For M.2 SSD
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2023 6:39 pm
My C: drive is a 1 TB Samsung 990 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD with only about a third of its capacity used. Would there be any consequential (meaning noticeable) gain by using a relatively large portion of the 64 GB of available RAM as an L1 cache? My thought is the RAM is much faster than the even the fast SSD I use so it might lend itself as an L1 Cache. I do not begin to need this much RAM so I would like to put it to good use but not at the expense of trying fix something that isn't really broken.
Also, if my thought about using the RAM is not really viable, am I correct in thinking that since most everything is already based on the M.2 SSD, there really isn't much gain in using a cache to make things even snappier than they already are?
Also, if my thought about using the RAM is not really viable, am I correct in thinking that since most everything is already based on the M.2 SSD, there really isn't much gain in using a cache to make things even snappier than they already are?