See....Caching Does Work

wazza300

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thought id post the before and after caching results,windows 7 installed on a 2tb drive (this is atleast a 2 to 3 year old install and takes up 228gb of space with data)

I did a simple reg tweak to enable raid without re installing,connected my old corsair force gt 60gb ssd installed the latest intel rapid storage drivers

IMPORTANT: the ssd must be unallocated space for it to show up in rst software

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then you pick what drive/os you want to cache(accelerate)

this is before caching

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and below is after caching has been enabled and rebooted twice(it usually takes two to three full boots to fill up the caching ssd,then things start to load fast)

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everything feels just as quick as having the os installed onto the ssd

EDIT: another restart later,improved time

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yh I have windows 8.1 on my other pc

for anyone who can grab a cheap 64gb ssd then this is the best solution,now I have 2tb with instant speed

I did have the os on the ssd itself but 60gb was too small

hehe im such a night owl
 
Yup my laptop has an 8GB SSD cache and a mechanical HDD with the OS installed on it - doing some testing it was taking 40-60 seconds to boot with the SSD cache disabled and ~18 seconds with it enabled (same laptop with an SSD boots Windows 7 in ~11 seconds).
 
Intel RST makes loads of sense, especially when you consider most files on an SSD won't even be accessed. I'm booting on an Samsung 840 Pro but often wish I saved money and booted from a WD black drive that was cached with RST.
 
wazza, could you see if your able to cache another HDD? Do you remember my other thread where I was trying to cache a data HDD but had issue due to booting from SSD drive.

As your booting from a HDD, maybe caching another HDD is possible now.
 
well I have another storage hdd and it would let me accelerate that aswell,besides the os/hdd

but not both together unless in a raid array
 
So just to comfirm, both HDD's have to be in a combined RAID array to have RST enabled?

If both HDD's are separate, along with having a separate SSD each, then only one HDD can have RST enabled?
 
Wonder if you can use junction links to trick it into caching a second drive (anything would need to be accessed via the junction link).
 
no,nothing has to be in a raid array,only if you wanted to cache two drives at once

it gave me an option to cache my os hdd or my storage hdd when I looked

EDIT: @Jason yh your right,i had a mind melt(you can only cache one drive at a time(unless they are in a raid array ect)
 
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wazza300 said:
EDIT: @Jason yh your right,i had a mind melt(you can only cache one drive at a time(unless they are in a raid array ect)
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I think Intel are missing a trick here, it's such a shame that all HDD's on someones system can not be cached. This may be similar reason why I could not cache my data HDD given the OS was on SSD.
 
JasonM said:
I think Intel are missing a trick here, it's such a shame that all HDD's on someones system can not be cached. This may be similar reason why I could not cache my data HDD given the OS was on SSD.
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yeah the os has to be on atleast one hdd,then you can cache any other hdd attached

BlackAle said:
Nice, but meaningless. Just use sleep.
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that's fine till you wanna turn off/restart the pc
 
Cool, although I think the problem with caching is that a lot of caches are stupidly small (cheap), so it ends up not being able to store much whereas a 64GB can probably cache most of your daily uses.
 
How well would this work in a situation where I had a dedicated SSD as an OS drive, but used Intel SRT on a 1TB data drive for my Steam library.

Would it just take a couple of times of loading the games I'd be playing most often to get them cached?
 
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