The natural middle ground is to get an SSD for your Windows installation and an HDD for all your stuff. This video shows you how to setup both to make them work well together.

SSD cache is the means of using solid-state drives for storing frequently accessed data on Synology NAS to improve overall system performance. This guide will show you how to set it all up.

After creating a Proton account and signing up for a relevant plan, go over the steps below to set up Proton Drive on your desktop. We start with the Windows version.

But you also lose CD/DVD reading and writing abilities — things fewer people care about these days — and you’ll need to set up your Mac to properly take advantage of the SSD.

Not only does the convenient form factor limit what you can do with the drive, but the storage is often of a lower class and marked up. You’re better off just putting together your own external SSD.

But if you use both, and set them up intelligently, you can enjoy a hard drive’s mass storage without losing too much performance. But that only works if you can install two drives into your PC.

Since the speed of the SSD cache is more or less the same as the base drive in question, there's little incentive to set up SSD caching on your gaming PC.

Reattach the smaller hard drive cable to the SSD, then use the other Torx screws to attach the bracketed SSD in the iMac. Tuck the thermal sensor’s body off to the edge of the SSD.

To set up a Dev Drive on Windows 11 for developers, you need to either create a new VHD, resize an existing volume, or use the unallocated space on disk.