Hello, everyone:
I just bought an Intel SSD 530 120G for my laptop. It worked well with the OS Win8.1 Pro x64.
When I paid attention to the NAND writes, something make me confused.
The situation is as follow:
The SSD with the OS is the first(primary) drive, and the HDD is the second one. I has moved the cache of IE, chrome and Firefox to the Hard Drive using IE setting or mklink command, and verified it correctly. The written data stream from cache is produced in the HDD partition theoretically, also I could get this conclution through the System's Resource Monitor and the Diskmon from Microsoft website. When I cached the Movie embedded into the website, there are lots of written data traffic produced in the HDD partition. In fact, this written data traffic produced by explorer's cache in HDD is calculated into the SSD's total NAND writes. When I cached several Movies in any explorer without other operation seperately, Each test consumed about 3Gb SSD's NAND writes in total, but only improved less than 200Mb in Total Host Writes in the CrystalDiskInfo 6.0.1, the latter data is normal for system operating. Also I have got same result with the newly Intel toolbox, AIDA64 3.20 and CrystalDiskInfo 6.0.1.
Actually I'm not care of the SSD's wear, and I'm sure it couldn't reach the limited lifespan with normal usage until next generation product arrives. This accidental discovery confused me now, and the result above make me suspect the theory, Putting IE/Chrome or System cache into other medium/drive saving your SSD's wear.
Q:Here, I want to know what makes this strange condition happen, the drivers, system's bug, bad support for old mainboard, the system's setting&config or the special system log?
Testing condition:
Thinkpad R400(GM45 motherboard)/P8700/8Gb RAM/Intel 530 SSD+Hitachi 7k500/Intel 5300 AGN/Win 8.1 Pro X64 with the Win 8.1's Default config and drivers, except trunning the service Superfetch off mannually.
I could make sure the location of explorer cache(IE, Chrome, Firefox) in HDD, also the written data traffic in HDD, and the vast imprived NAND writes in SSD simultaneously.
Thanks for your help.