Intel Smart Response Technology Questions

[shankly1985]

It'll be even quicker on sata3 ports,give it few days to reach full speed as it takes time to fill the 60gb up with all your most used data ect

Can I still use a program to see the ssd life thing you have? or is that only work when you have ssd with windows on it?

 

[shankly1985]

Yeah you can use ssd life too,

Thanks mate get that downloaded.

 

[shankly1985]

Installed SSDlife and it didn't find my Drive.

 

[shankly1985]

I can't remember if it works or not in caching mode,lookslike it doesn't,the ssd remains invisible in windows aswell when in caching

Yer it dont show in windows. only way to see it is working is in the ISR app

 

[shankly1985]

Wow Just Wow sata 3 makes a massive difference thanks for ponting that error of mine out mate

 

[shankly1985]

thats better,are you happy with the corsair gt?

So far it's superb I can't fault it. My pc is super fast.

 

[shankly1985]

If you going to be reinstalling windows you might has well enable raid in bios then install. That way when you connect your ssd all the Intel ports are already set to raid. You won't loose any data on the hdd I have 3 hard drives one with windows plus ssd and the other two are data. When switching to raid all my data was fine.

 

[shankly1985]

Yes apply the reg tweak and shutdown pc. Connect ssd and power on and enter the bios and switch to raid. Then boot into windows and install Intel smart response and apply caching to the data drive. You can't have separate controller modes they will all be on raid well on my board you can't.

 

[shankly1985]

Nope mate its Intel and marvell and Intel smart response only works with Intel ports.

 

[shankly1985]

You could put your ssd windows drive on the marvell sata 3 port and set ahci and have just the Intel ports raid that should work. You also wouldn't need to reg tweak just make sure marvell set to ahci before booting.

 

[shankly1985]

All Black are Intel sata2 then you have four gray witch are two Intel sata 3 and two marvell sata3

If I remember correctly, there are two Intel SATA III ports, two Marvel SATA III ports and two Intel SATA II ports?

EDIT: It has 4 of each:



So I'll use one Intel SATA III for the OS SSD, and the two Intel SATA II ports for the SSD caching drive and 1TB docs drive.

 

[shankly1985]

So I'm good to go.

I'm tempted, while I'm at it, to order a 2TB drive. Can I quickly go off topic and ask which drive is good around the £80 to pair up with the SSD?

Am using seagate st2000dm001 and I cant fault it that around that price. it is £80 lol http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-255-SE

 

[shankly1985]

Was till I updated its firmware.