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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: 7racecar7 on January 26, 2014, 01:55:25 pm
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Hello,
I would like to setup a system with GIGABYTE Z87X-HD3 that uses intel's smart response technology with 1 SSD drive and 2 HHD drives and the 2 HHD will be in RAID 1 mode, can this be done?
If not, any recommendations on the best way to backup disk with 1 SSD and 2 HHD the 2 HHD drives are VelociRaptor 10,000RPM SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache for performance?
Operating system is windows 7
Thank you
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What drive are going to put OS on? Plus here is a little info on what you are trying to do.
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Intel-Smart-Response-Technology-Explained/1292
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What drive are going to put OS on? Plus here is a little info on what you are trying to do.
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Intel-Smart-Response-Technology-Explained/1292
Operating system will be in the SSD, from what I understand that offers the performance gains.
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It doesn't work that way, you use the SSD for cache memory read what I put up on that link.
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I now understand, it basically is a cache
in this case can i put the operating system on a partition of the ssd and the smart response on another partition of the same ssd and then have my storage hdds (2)in a raid 1 config in order to accelerate the storage on raid 1 (2hhd)?
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it doesn't work that way either. if you're installing os an ssd then smart response isn't needed.
smart response is for speeding up os when installed on a mechanical drive, the ssd is used as a cache for most frequent used os files.
therefore, if you install os on ssd - no need to cache
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thank you then it seems there is no reason to use smart response, i was thinking it could speed up access to the data files that programs would store on the raid 1 volume, for example quickbooks
so the config will be 1 ssd with os 2 hhd in raid 1, also been reading about trim is there a concern with trim in this setup? is trim the same as garbage collection? thank you for your help
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TRIM isn't such an issue nowadays as most SSD's have it built-in, and the Z87 can pass the command in RAID mode.