ASUS P8Z77-V Premium / SSD Caching

[sprite1275]

Just finished building a rig with this mobo. Being a noob at this stuff I would like to set up caching with the ONBOARD SSD this mobo has to my 1TB HDD. Just don't know how to go about it. Can anyone help?

 

[wazza300]

You have to set the SATA ports to raid in the BIOS,then in windows install the Intel rapid storage drivers,reboot a few times then in windows in the Intel rapid storage console in bottom right of taskbar,it'll be a grey box with a green tick on it,click it and choose the hdd to accelerate and that's it

 

[sprite1275]

You have to set the SATA ports to raid in the BIOS,then in windows install the Intel rapid storage drivers,reboot a few times then in windows in the Intel rapid storage console in bottom right of taskbar,it'll be a grey box with a green tick on it,click it and choose the hdd to accelerate and that's it

I set the sata to raid but the computer wouldnt boot up, kept going on and off.

Should I download drivers first, I'm on win 7

 

[wazza300]

Ahh yes sorry its been a while since I last used caching,you have to re install windows to enable raid,but there's a simple reg tweak to get round it,ill post it up in a mo as I'm on my phone

ok here's the guide I used and it works a treat,note you'll need to download the raid driver off asus website ready to install once you've applied the reg tweak

If you already have W7 installed and do not want to reinstall do this:
1) Do not connect the caching SSD yet. First apply the following registry tweak:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Iastorv
In the details pane, right-click "Start", and then click modify.
In the Value data box, type 0

This registry change enables the RAID driver in Windows.
2) Next install the raid driver.
3) Connect your caching SSD
4) Set up caching with RST util.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums...y-step-guide-to-setting-up-SSD-caching-on-Z68

 

[sprite1275]

Thanks, thing is the SSD is part of the mobo so can't unplug it.

 

[wazza300]

It might work without unplugging it,I think they do unplug but try with it connected

Edit,if its an msata ssd they do unplug