I decided to attempt to set up Smart Response on my system and I've run into some issues that I'm not sure I understand. I'm looking to see if anyone can give clarification! First off, my system is a DZ77 GA70k board and 3770k chip, 8 gig RAM, 2 - 2T Seagate HD's, Windows 8 64 bit OS. As I initially read it, the standard HD or HD's have to be in RAID mode, even if it is a single drive. I currently have them set up in a RAID 0. I added the SSD (Intel 120gig) and started up the Rapid Storage application. There was no "Accelerate" tab present.
I started looking into the help for in the RST program and it listed this entire section on "limitations" that I had not previously been aware of that read like the Magna Carta. First off it mentioned that you cannot have a Recovery partition. Apparently I have one? I have no idea where it came from, but sure as heck, it's there. Also, it says you can only have one volume on the RAID, I have 2. At the start of it all I didn't see any of these limitations so I wasn't concerned. I'd really like to get Smart Response going so I'm perfectly willing to make changes even if I have to reinstall my OS since I'm not too far into it, but I'd like to make sure I'm covering all my bases and correcting ALL my problems first.
Just so I understand, "volumes" and "drive letters" are entirely different, correct? As in, I can create one volume, and have several drive letters within it? If that is the case, I can certainly deal with one volume and make that change. As for the recovery partition, I'm not sure where it came from so I'm not sure how to avoid making it! Any advise here?
I wish I could have seen a nice check-list before I started the system build so I could have followed the "rules" of SRT :/ I'm guessing there isn't a non-destructive way of making these changes?
Thanks for any input!
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