Use old SSD as caching drive.

I'm planning on buying a new ssd and I wonder if it's possible to use my old one in combination with my games harddisk?

 

And you know how to switch a drive into a caching one?

 

If I knew how I wouldn't have opened this topic.

 

Well, if you have USB3 than you can attach drive to it and let Windows to use drive as ReadyBoost drive.

 

Only usb2 here.

 

I think, if you will get box with good USB-to-SATA converter (some respected brand) and with its own power supply, you can try.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff356869.aspx
If your HDD is not the fastest one you can get some boost.

 

move /temp and the virtual memory to the old ssd (google move temp folder and move pagefile) ... that is all u need to do

 

This will be junking but not caching -)

 

So like this isn't possible too bad.
http://www.corsair.com/en/accelerator-series-60gb-solid-state-cache-drive

The software they use is Dataplex but it supports only six ssds.
The best option would just be using my old ssd for a couple of games (Witcher 3, Total War Atilla) and leave it like a normal drive.

thanks guys

 

primocache worked great for me
i have used dataplex and intel srt but primocache offered the best performance and support for larger hdd and newer os than dataplex which is limited to 2tb win7
currently i have everything (win10\games) installed to a 3tb toshiba hdd and a ocz synapse 128g (64g available) ssd as the cache

 

Here's my dirty little trick for steam updates:

I move my Steam temporary folder to my SSD by creating symlink like this:

mklink /J G:\Steam\SteamApps\Downloading J:\tmp\DLcacheG
-----------------^^Existing Steam dir -------------^^SSD---

What Steam does when updating your game is it copies the entire game to temporary folder under your existing Steam folder G:\Steam\SteamApps\downloading (in case something goes wrong).
And then it applies the patch. These concurrent Read/Write operations are quite time consuming so I use SSD as a caching middleman to considerably speed up things.

 

You're a lifesaver!
It's not a big ssd(28gb) but now it works perfectly with my games hd.