I have a Lenovo Y400 laptop, that came with a 16gb Intel Smart Response cache drive. I also have an unused 64gb ssd drive lying around. I was wondering whether replacing the 16gb cache drive with the 64 drive will show any significant performance improvements, if any at all? Has someone conducted a benchmark comparing Smart Response performance by cache size?
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Yes, Intel Smart Response Technology's caching supports up to 64 GB.
A larger cache means more of your data can be stored on the SSD, and when used (i.e. read), will open faster. The difference between cache sizes isn't something you can benchmark in the traditional sense. It would depend entirely on you've previously been using; whether or not what you're opening next has been used before, or whether you've used too many other things since then that resulted in it being flushed out.
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