The only time I think any kind of tiered storage works is when you're extremely limited on ssd space, maybe a small nvme and 1tb 2.5" drive in a laptop where moving games manually all the time is a pain but if your home system is a ssd big enough to hold 1-2 modern games with windows and a huge mechanical ssd then all you're going to do with tiered storage is cause some long transfers as your most used game changes and the ssd/hdd keeps exchanging data.īut with this comes the potential for data loss. When a game loads you have shit being unpacked, processed, and the game load is limited by the cpu and gpu not the storage. If the time stamp works hopefully it's straight to the results without the boring preamble.Ī ramdisk doesn't improve speeds over ssd at all, standard ssds are almost always past the point of bottlenecking a system.
Just a quick comparison showing a ramdisk application that lets you put a whole game into a ramdisk, or most important files benched against a hdd, a ssd and an ssd using Samsung cache stuff which is supposed to learn and cache a few important files. Then have a mechanical for downloading stuff to, video, photos, back up, etc. You can barely and usually not tell the difference between a 'low end' 500mb/s ssd and a 3gb/s read nvme drive. Almost everyone should have a boot/windows nvme/ssd, then 1-3 of the biggest cheapest ssds you can find, it really doesn't matter if they are considered 'slow' or cheap ssds, you can't tell any speed difference for anything but serious server loads in the slightest. Honestly at this point, I got a 1tb Crucial ssd for like £100, I've got 5 years of older 256gb ssds and an nvme drive.
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