Methods and systems are presented for evicting or copying-forward blocks in a storage system during garbage collection. In one method, a block status is maintained in a first memory to identify if the block is active or inactive, blocks being stored in segments that are configured to be cacheable in a second memory, a read-cache memory. Whenever an operation on a block is detected making the block inactive in one volume, the system determines if the block is still active in any volume, the block being cached in a first segment in the second memory. When the system detects that the first segment is being evicted from the second memory, the system re-caches the block into a second segment in the second memory if the block status of the block is active and the frequency of access to the block is above a predetermined value.