Intel Smart Response Technology

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[TW]Fox

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So, whats everyones thoughts on this?

For context, it's the new feature in the Z68 chipset where a small capacity, inexpensive SSD can act as a cache for a conventional hard drive, providing quite significant performance boosts.

I'm very tempted to pair this technology with my RAID0 array - reckon it would be worth it?
 
Because I don't understand the point in using a small SSD as a boot drive. I never boot my machine - its always on. I want everything I do to be quick, not just booting Windows.
 
james.miller said:
and that's what an ssd is for. If anything, the boot time is probably one of the least important benefits of an SSD. if you want to do everything quickly, then check out the various videos comparing application loading on an SSD and a mechnical drive. they are worlds apart.
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The idea of spending hundreds of pounds on storage doesn't appeal - which is what you need to do in order to run everything from SSD's.
 
Looking at todays Anandtech review of the Z68 chipset, this seems to be an excellent technology. In some cases it offers performance very close to that of a full SSD setup but with the flexibility and size of a regular HDD setup.
 
Tute said:
This looks like a good tech, but if you read the Anandtech review from start to finish they go on to note that if you run a handful of applications it's great, but if you don't then it has quite serious drawbacks. For example, it tends to discard data quite readily if you don't run it often, and you're back to square one in performance.

If you can afford a proper SSD, it looks better to just take that path.
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Surely that drawback applies equally to 'proper' SSD - they are not big enough to store everything on, so again you only gain acceleration of a select amount of data.

This is the problem with SSD. Just because I could easily afford to spend £150 and only get 64gb of hard drive space doesn't mean I want to. I consider it very poor value for money.

This system looks like many of the benefits, though obviously not all, without the poor value for money.
 
I'm still really interested in trying this - I now have an Asus P8Z58V-Pro, so all I need is a small capacity SSD. I'm running a RAID0 array with 2xWD Black's, I presume I could still accelerate this?
 
The more I read the more awesome this technology appears to be. I don't understand why the review sites, and people here, are just saying 'Bah just get a big SSD'.

They don't do 2TB SSD's.
 
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