Questions tagged [smart-response]

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No Accelerate button/tab on Intel Rapid Storage window

I have an ASUS P8Z68 motherboard with a Corsair SSD as my primary boot drive. I have a TB standard hard drive as a secondary data drive. I am attempting to use an older Intel SSD as a cache on the hard drive with Intel's Smart Response caching.…
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Intel Rapid Storage refuses to work (no button in SRT utility)

I've got a fresh Dell Inspiron 15R SE with pre-installed Windows 8, 1Tb HDD and 32Gb SSD on mSATA included by manufacturer specifically for caching purposes and advertised as such. The problem is that as far as I can see, no acceleration/caching is…
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Is it possible to accelerate my data drive using the same SSD Windows is installed on using Intel SRT?

I have a 240GB SSD with Windows 7 installed. It also has an unallocated 64GB partition, which I reserved to use Intel Smart Response Technology. I would like to accelerate a mechanical drive that is solely reserved for data. SATA is set to RAID (and…
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Does Intel Smart Response cache drive size matter?

I have a Lenovo Y400 laptop, that came with a 16gb Intel Smart Response cache drive. I also have an unused 64gb ssd drive lying around. I was wondering whether replacing the 16gb cache drive with the 64 drive will show any significant performance…
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Can Intel SRT on one SATA channel accelerate a separate SSD on another channel?

My laptop can house both a 2.5" drive and an mSATA card. I have a SSD in the 2.5" slot already with enough capacity for my needs, if I added a 64GB mSATA card would I get faster system performance by using Intel SRT? I have the mSATA card already,…
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Does Intel RST Smart Response work with a PCIe drive coupled with a SATA HDD?

I purchased a laptop 2 years ago with a 128GB SATA M2 SSD (for the OS) with a 2TB SATA mechanical drive. From factory it was installed with an Intel RST configuration that accelerated the mechanical drive speeds with the use of cache and the primary…
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