any suggestion?

[hackerz14]

I will plan to buy a 120 SATA SSD, it has a very limited capacity.. I want to install Win 10 to the SSD and have my 1 TB 7200 HDD as my DATA, should I partition the SSD for use as L2 cache for PrimoCache? Here is my PC specs
AMD A8-7600 R7 with 8GB of RAM and 2GB shared on GPU

[ferrari]

I would just install windows on the Hard Disk and use the ssd as page file location and L2 read only cache with a small L1 write only only cache. Also install windows with a 8-16k cluster size to reduce overhead(there's youtube videos on how to use a non default cluster size for windows install.

[points]

I would create 2 partitions on the SSD. 1 for Windows 10 and 1 for the cache. For Windows 10 I would use around 64GB and the rest for the cache of the data partition only. That'll be roughly 50GB cache size which is a lot depending on the kind of data you are going to cache.
For even more acceleration get another 8GB of RAM and use 2-4 of it as L1 cache.

[hackerz14]

thanks for the suggestion guys.. how can I avoid the redundant writes and reduce wear on SSD, prolonging the lifespan of SSD
here is one of the product detail of my incoming SSD
• Life expectancy: 1 million hours MTBF
• Total Bytes Written (TBW): 40TB

[ferrari]

Using the L2 as a read only cache is great for reducing writes to the SSD, and leaving 10% of the drive unpartitioned will also help wear. A small write only L1 cache of 128-256Mb will speed up writes greatly too.

[hackerz14]

Using the L2 as a read only cache is great for reducing writes to the SSD, and leaving 10% of the drive unpartitioned will also help wear. A small write only L1 cache of 128-256Mb will speed up writes greatly too.

how about 1GB L1 cache shared/read and write?

[ferrari]

Probably be ok, I think shared read/write lets up to 90% of it be used for writes if it's needed. I just don't like taking ram away from windows cache but 1Gb probably wouldn't hurt too much, your hit rate might might look higher than it really is though because windows 'swaps' out it's cache to your L1 cache then reads it back from your L1 cache.
I'm using a 1Gb shared read/write but with 16Gb of ram, hit rate is 20% atm after 24hrs uptime which is reasonable I guess reducing read load on my ssd by 20%