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Old June 24, 2011, 09:25 AM
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I read the article regarding the Z68's RST Caching feature regarding speed improvements with a small SSD alongside a traditional HDD. What advice does this forum have for people who have a new OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SSD + 2TB WD Black? The article is silent for those who have a full size SSD. Therefore is it implied to carry on with the old advice to set BIOS storage config to ACHI or do we follow the new advice and set storage config to RAID for those who have both large and small SSDs?
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Old June 24, 2011, 10:17 AM
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core OS and large/important apps on SSD, documents, settings, users, temp files, small/unimportant apps, media and archives on on HDD. I'd partition the HDD into user/temp, apps and everything else.
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Old June 24, 2011, 10:18 AM
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Not sure I would bother with caching with a 120gb SSD. Just run your OS from that.
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Old June 24, 2011, 10:22 AM
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The Rapid Storage driver supports up to 64GB. Unless you made a second partition on your SSD, much of it would go to waste when used as a cache drive.
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Old June 24, 2011, 10:47 AM
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Thanks, guys! I'm leaning towards this then - OS/programs on SSD, data/other stuff on 2TB HDD, set storage config in BIOS to AHCI, and forget about RST Caching. How is this option? 120GB SSD, 2TB HDD, and dedicated 20GB SSD for caching. Is this option stupid/pointless?
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Old June 24, 2011, 10:50 AM
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I'd recommend a 40GB SSD for caching.
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