Intel Optane/RST Question

[nikanor9]

I have a 200 series motherboard but already use a solid state drive for the OS and most games. I am interested in whether or not I could buy an optane module for use with intel rapid storage technology across multiple drives.

Let's say I started installing games on a separate mechanical hard drive. Could I use optane with RST to noticeably decrease game launch times?

Thank you.

 

[Colif]

Cache drives nothing new, Intel just found new use for the software.

To use the cache the drive needs to be a raid set up with the drive. Have a look at link below, it should explain more

Intel optane user guide

 

[CRO5513Y]

It has no useful gain for SSDs anyway. This has already been tested i suggest you look it up online for benchmarks. On HDDs however it shows incredible gains with games loading, application loading and booting up in general (although it's not your boot drive this isn't as applicable). So i would personally only bother adding a Optane drive if you actually store plenty of apps and games on your mechanical drive that will benefit from Optane.

See some tests here > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgTYSsaNU_A.

 

[varis]

Would Optane be a better option than a 2nd SSD (used for games, data, etc)?

Might make sense in this system - if we drop the 2nd SSD, A LOT of games and data will reside on the old HDD. Going with Optane would provide some (better???) performance and certainly more storage space would be usable for performance critical stuff than just with the 256GB SSD.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3406839/decisions-mid-range-intel-gaming-low-noise.html