Intel SRT?

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Trojan Horse

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Hi,

I have some questions regarding SRT after reading a few posts and looking at it being referred I decided to google it and I would like to use SRT but I have a few questions.

Firstly I have 2x 3tb Seagate Barracuda drives and a 128gb samsung 830 drive. I use the seagates to game and the ssd to use as my OS however would activating SRT mean slower start ups (because from various guides it says you have to install windows in RAID mode, on your HDD and not SSD).. and what other disadvantages would I get using SRT?

Will using SRT increase my drive speeds by a lot or is it an unnoticable change?

I'm currently getting around 90mbs read (nearly full) on one drive and around 200mbps read on the other HDD, the SSD is getting around 525 read.

Should I use and install SRT?
Also how much space on my SSD will it use and should I buy a new SSD just for caching purposes?
 
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it will be as fast as your ssd,there might be 5 seconds slower startups due to the raid console/info flashing up at startup

you can only use upto 60gb ssd space for caching

ive used it and it works well compared to having the os on the ssd itself
 
sweet thanks a lot.

so whats the difference between using only 60gb and using 10gb.. planning to use less than 20gb but can go all the way to 60gb if needed.

If 60gb is a must I will just purchase a secondary SSD to use as a cacher
 
its upto you it just has more room the bigger the better (upto 60gb)

only the most read/written data gets stored on the caching space and accessed/speeding up things

it later gets written to the hdd so you don't lose anything,gigabyte has ez smart response program to set it up for you,but the os has to be on the hdd

my advise would be to try it and see what you think,you can always go back to how you were
 
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Alright so what your telling me is that if I set say, 10gb to cache, the most read stuff gets put onto the SSD and once I restart my pc that 10gb will be cleared into the HDD?

should I port my OS over to the HDD or a fresh reinstall? would hate to install all the wupdates another time this week
 
clone it across to the hdd

and yeah 10gb would be used to cache the 2tb of data (the most used programs ect)

with 60gb you'd have more room to cache more programs/most used data ect

don't think samsungs data migration will let you clone to a non Samsung hdd? youd have to try it

heres a cloning guide

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18576917

you can clone the os back to the ssd when and if you change your mind
 
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hmm ok it sounds good. now gonna go google guides to clone windows and what gigabyte ezsmart is .

could i change the location of the SRT say purchase another SSD later down and move the cache to there or increase the cache on my ssd?
 
yeah they just swap out,you choose to write the stored data to your os hdd then you remove the ssd/put in another ect or expand the current caching space

EDIT: you could also use a ram disk for your 2tb hdd,that works the same way,if you have say 16gb of ram you could reserve 8gb for a ram disk
 
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OK.

Will changing OS hard drive mean hard drive's letters are changed too? I've got my games etc linked to :D drive and if my D drive becomes primary will it automatically switch to C?

Will report back once I've found how to clone.. going to just find a windows cloner program
 
you'd have to backup the 2tb data aswell,cos you'll need to format it to clone the os to it from your ssd,then wipe the ssd and setup caching

use macrium reflect cloning tool,
 
hmm,

will i have to wipe both drives because i'm going to put it onto RAID?



i'm going to begin formatting my H (storage) 3tb drive then use your guide to port windows using that cloner. are removing the other drives really neccessary? can't i just disable them in the BIOS or dev manager?
 
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Ahh Yh 3tb

You don't have to raid the hdds raid is used so that you can use caching that's all,no drives will be in a raid array

I forget which ramdisk I used now,it might simply be called ramdisk or supercache
 
the drive letter should stay the same as its an exact clone

and to be safe(so not to mess up the boot manager) id pull out the other drives sata or power cable or disable the ports they use in the bios
 
ok will do. the only problem is both drivers are identical in the BIOS... god damn it how do I find out what port is on what drive on windows (so I can disable in bios easier).

the hdd im disabling has no boot option and is purely storage (just has 2tb worth of steam games)


installing macrium trial right now, it seems they have no free version anymore.

edit: device manager says my hdd is "channel 2" and my ssd is channel 0 (i remember puttign the ssd on sata port 0) but regardless if thats not it then trial and error... still waiting for my slow ass connection to finish this 200mb dl.
 
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I can't clone it using macrium because whenever I do it switches the disk from GPT to MBR so It doesn't use all 3TB and limits to 2TB. should I use other software or will this happen all of the time?

edit: tried driveimage xml and that failed also. is it even possible to copy mbr to gpt?
 
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OK

I've managed to clone it wazza using easeus (had to try a bunch before it finally ****ing worked)... and clone partition is OK and it is GPT.. all good there..

however it won't boot, it says something along the lines of "please insert proper boot device then press any key" on a blackscreen upon bootup. I can check what it actually says but what else do I need to do.. got any clues for these GPT drives? Do I need to install the boot record again or something?
 
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