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September 11th 13, 04:25 AM
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Hi, with a hybrid drive should the BIOS be set as 'Solid state' or 'SATA'?
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September 11th 13, 04:36 AM
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On 9/10/2013 11:25 PM, housetrained wrote:
Hi, with a hybrid drive should the BIOS be set as 'Solid state' or 'SATA'? Sata.
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September 11th 13, 04:58 AM
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housetrained wrote:
Hi, with a hybrid drive should the BIOS be set as 'Solid state' or 'SATA'? housetrained Just for the record, what make and model of motherboard is this ? Paul
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September 11th 13, 07:17 AM
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"Paul" wrote in message ...
housetrained wrote: Hi, with a hybrid drive should the BIOS be set as 'Solid state' or 'SATA'? housetrained Just for the record, what make and model of motherboard is this ? Paul ASRock Z77 extreme4 -- housetrained
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September 11th 13, 01:57 PM
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housetrained wrote:
"Paul" wrote in message ... housetrained wrote: Hi, with a hybrid drive should the BIOS be set as 'Solid state' or 'SATA'? housetrained Just for the record, what make and model of motherboard is this ? Paul ASRock Z77 extreme4 This motherboard setting, I can't match it exactly in the manual, but it sounds like Smart Response SSD caching method. "Intel Smart Response Technology accelerates the system response experience by putting frequently-used blocks of disk data on a solid-state drive (SSD), providing dramatically faster access to user data than the hard disk alone can provide. For users who are tempted to connect the SSD and HDD on ASRock motherboard, Intel Smart Response Technology can make the SSD become the "Cache of the HDD" to boost up the HDD access speed. ASRock motherboards with Intel Smart Response Technology are able to drive 4X faster performance boost than a HDD-only system. " It could be, that setting is attempting to find SSD drives for usage by SRT. And with a Hybrid drive, that doesn't seem such a good idea - as your Hybrid drive is doing that for itself. As far as the system is concerned, your Hybrid is an "ordinary HDD". You could try looking for Smart Response settings, and see if there are any details listed there. You would think though, the BIOS could figure out what drive is an SSD, by inspection. The SMART statistics on SSDs are different, and there should be a "wear life" parameter as an example. Seeing that, would be evidence of an SSD. I thought the SRT thing, was limited to the amount of SSD it would use. I don't think it caches more than 20-30GB or so. And they made some "small SSDs" just for SRT, devices that were too small to be practical to install Windows 7 say. They instead, could be used for SRT, to make a hard drive seem faster. Such caching schemes, aren't necessarily that smooth in terms of performance. They're not like having an SSD for everything. Just a guess, Paul
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