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SSD RAM CACHING (Especially Writing)

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the main poblem here is the startup. my computer takes, a long, long long time booting up. the loading screen passes at an okay speed, totally acceptable, but when it get to windows, here is the poblem.
and my gigabit ethernet is bottlenecked by the ssd. (at writing)
even at the fresh installation of this computer it was already this way, after formatting, nothing. at disk mark, it gets its 550MB reading, and the 150MB writing.
my idea is to use ram as an extra cache for the disk, especially for writing, im using the primo cache, it works.. but its paid, and i prefer using my money on a better ssd (it will take an long time.)
so, if there is any way, i can use the ram as an extra cache for my ssd, to at least get faster speeds than an harddrive, and not wait more than 10 min looking at the task manager.

i know that my ssd is just not for operating systems (or is just bad at all), but, an good boot time would be good, i do not wish for 0.0000000000000001 seconds of boots time, just anything less than 10 minutes.

test:
primo cache 1024MB (cant change, for some reason, bug)
3min +
 
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I don't understand what you are asking.

RAM caching is not worth it, IMO. Better to just add more RAM. Its cheap.

You also need to make sure your SSD has plenty of free disk space. If your system specs is accurately showing your specs, a single 450GB SSD for storage may be your problem.
 
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Write cache is double edged sword especially on system drive - it's usually used with UPS and it is still risky in case something like unexpected crash happens and data were in RAM and not on drive like they should be you are asking for trouble (data loss or operating system failure - been there).
In device manager in properties of your drive there is "Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing" which is disabled by default (for good reasons) but it can help in some write operations significantly. Use it on your own risk, especially on system drive.
Also OS boot is not doing any significant writes so the issue with that could be elsewhere. Even old HDD boots in like 1 min on freshly installed modern OS.
 
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just anything less than 10 minutes

You have a 10 min boot time (without primo cache)? How is RAM going to help with boot times given that the RAM is empty at boot.

My Core 2 machine boots into Windows 10 in less than 30 seconds ( I have an SSD on SATA 2)
 
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WD Greens are the bottom of the barrel. i had a SATA M.2 drive that was almost unuseable after a month.
get yourself any semi modern TLC drive. even 30 dollar drives are more than enough.
 
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A modern SSD or newer HDD will rock those speeds. My single WD Gold 4TB hits 200MB/s write. $30 SATA SSD, 500 MB/s.
 
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