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I have a 240GB SSD with Windows 7 installed. It also has an unallocated 64GB partition, which I reserved to use Intel Smart Response Technology.

I would like to accelerate a mechanical drive that is solely reserved for data.

SATA is set to RAID (and was so before I installed Windows) and both disks are connected to the Intel controller. However in the Intel Rapid Storage Technology utility, I only get the option to create a RAID.

From prior reading, what I want to do appears to be possible.

Please can someone with experience of using their SSD as both a boot drive and cache tell me what I am doing wrong?

For clarity - I am not trying to accelerate a mechanical drive that has the OS installed on it.

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  • This question has been asked before
    – Ramhound
    May 5, 2015 at 11:04
  • @Ramhound that question is unrelated. The (large) difference is, I have installed Windows on the SSD which I would like to use as a cache. The drive I wish to accelerate is solely data.
    – Check12
    May 5, 2015 at 11:10
  • So you checked and verified the drive is using the Intel RAID driver?
    – Ramhound
    May 5, 2015 at 11:12
  • @Ramhound yes, hence the ability to create a RAID array in the utility.
    – Check12
    May 5, 2015 at 11:17
  • You can't have any partitions on the drive? and this explain the reasons.
    – Ramhound
    May 5, 2015 at 11:21

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