Intel Smart Step Z68 Set-up Help

kevy1986

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Hey Guys,

I'm in the middle of doing a rebuild on my computer and was wondering about enabling Intel Smart step ? I currently have a 128GB Crucial M4 which I have partitioned to 100gig for the OS and 18.65gig which I would like to use as a cache drive for my other 2 1tb samsung drives. Is this possible and how can I do it. I read that you have to install windows with RAID enabled. Currently I have just re-installed with ACHI but i'm willing to re-install again.

Is this a good idea that is worth trying out or do you think I should just not bother ?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Kev
 
Ahhhh sorry I didn't mean to say speed step ! I ment Intel Smart Response.

I've been doing a bit of reading and understand that if this is set-up on a raid array with an SSD as the data is stripped on the raid array it can read from each drive and sent to the SSD partition and processed faster. Am i right that this is how this works ?

What I want to achieve is faster performance from only my spindle HDs through using a SSD cache partition. So that when an area ( say a game folder ) is accessed from my terabyte hd the data around it is passed to the cache resulting in faster loading and performance. Kinda like a hybrid SSDHD or just how CPU cache works.

Is there any software out there that can facilitate this ? This should work as would just run on the same principle as CPU cache. There will be more hits providing it caches the game folder ect of what is in use to the SSD ?

Sorry for the confusion.
 
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