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SSD Cacheing application for games

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I've been looking at alot of storage solutions and nothing is really fitting for my next build. Its going to be a primarily gaming rig with around 10gb os, 300gb games, 200gb in media, 20gb in apps. I'd really like to get ssd speed load times in game but I'd have to get atleast a 512 gb ssd to cover that(too expensive), or a 256gb and micro manage which games I install(something I don't look forward to doing).

Eventually I came to the conclussion I'd have a cacheing system w/ my os and current favorite games on a 64gb/128gb with everything else sitting on a 1tb hdd. What cacheing applications could I use to help me swap out games on whim? Simple copy/pasting would prolly cause trouble with game saves not to mention steam would be the greatest hassle. Something that I wouldn't have to mess with my shortcuts would be wonderful, but that might be too much to ask.
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There really isn't an app that will do this.

Look into Intel SRT, the Seagate Momentus XT or the OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid.
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ya, looks like srt is the way to go, gonna look into some ghetto partitioning to get os and srt on a 64gb drive as described in
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=32528341&postcount=2
if that doesnt work out, I'll prolly just leave the ssd as a simple boot drive. Really don't feel comfortable leaving os on hdd, cached or not, it can still degrade etc.
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Make sure you back up ALL of your data on the drives involved first before doing this to a drive that can be unplugged and way from your system.

I tried doing the caching to my secondary HDD with my OS SSD and lost all data on the SSD and the HDD in doing so. SSD and HDD got corrupted so I had to run the clean command in diskpart on both of them first to get then to work again. Good thing I had a backup of everything before hand or else I would have lost over 700GB of personal data. lol
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