It will certainly be faster than a hdd alone.
I played with a 32GB disk cache setup in the past.
Nice bump in perf.
The problem is once the cache fills you drop back to hdd speed.
I finally just moved on to a ssd.
Building a computer. Curious to know opinions on if a "hard drive accelerated with M.2 Intel Optane Memory 16GB" is worth it versus, say, a regular hard drive.

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