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Intel® Smart Response Technology

Intel® Smart Response Technology boosts overall system performance. It uses an installed fast SSD (min 18.6GB available) as a cache for frequently accessed operations, speeding up hard drive/ main memory interaction. Key benefits are expedited hard drive speeds, reduced load and wait times, and maximized storage utilization. Power consumption also goes down by reducing unnecessary hard drive spin.

Intel® Smart Response Technology supports Windows® 7/ Vista operating systems.

• Intel® Smart Response Technology is supported by 2nd generation Intel® Core™ processor family.

Operating systems must be installed on the HDD to launch Intel® Smart Response Technology. The capacity of the SSD is reserved for caching function.

Before applying Intel® Smart Response Technology, set the SATA Mode BIOS item to [RAID mode] in BIOS setup. Refer to section 3.5.4 SATA Configuration for details.

To install Intel® Smart Response Technology:

1.Place the support DVD to the optical drive. The Drivers installation tab appears if your computer has enabled the Autorun feature.

2.Click the Drivers tab, then click Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Driver software.

3.Follow the onscreen instructions to complete installation.

To use Intel® Smart Response Technology:

1.Click Accelerate to launch Smart Response Technology settings.

2.a. Select the SSD you want to use to accelerate your storage system.

b. Select the size allocated for SSD caching.c. Select which HDD for caching.d.Enhanced mode:WRITE THROUGH, write to SSD and HDD at the same time.Maximized mode:WRITE BACK, write to SSD and write back to HDD in a later time.

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Chapter 4: Software support