Hi, i have been a silent reader of Tom's Hardware, it has been an amazing forum.
I have an issue with my laptop and was wonder if someone here can help.
Laptop: Asus S550CM
CPU: Intel i5 3317U
RAM: 4GB
Storage 750GB + 24 GB SSD
Windows 8
So last week i upgraded my laptop with 8 GB Kingston RAM & 120GB Kingston V300 SSD. I did not clone the old hard drive instead i just saved its image.
Everything on the 120 GB SSD was fresh installed, there are no missing drivers from what i can see.
Now the 24GB SSD is a waste as its not being used. i Guess i can use it for downloading & stuff but I want to try to setup SSD Caching on it as it was before with 750GB Hard drive. So the 120GB SSD would be the Main one with OS on it & the 24GB would be the Caching SSD.
But i cannot seem to get it to configure, Accelerate tab on Intel Rapid Storage Technology is missing even though i have installed the drivers multiple times.
It shows both the ssd's but would not let me configure it.
Before when it was the 750GB + 24GB windows would boot up in 3.5 Seconds. now that its all on 120GB ssd it takes 5 seconds. but i want to make that quicker.
Is it even possible to setup a SSD to Cache to an SSD? I have seen other posts some say to enable RAID in BIOS but my BIOS only has AHCI / IDE nothing else.
In computer management the 24GB SSD has a 40 mb OEM partition i guess that contains the serial for windows 8 etc. and the rest is unformatted / unallocated space. Should i Delete the OEM partition & see if it works? or am i Missing something?
I have an issue with my laptop and was wonder if someone here can help.
Laptop: Asus S550CM
CPU: Intel i5 3317U
RAM: 4GB
Storage 750GB + 24 GB SSD
Windows 8
So last week i upgraded my laptop with 8 GB Kingston RAM & 120GB Kingston V300 SSD. I did not clone the old hard drive instead i just saved its image.
Everything on the 120 GB SSD was fresh installed, there are no missing drivers from what i can see.
Now the 24GB SSD is a waste as its not being used. i Guess i can use it for downloading & stuff but I want to try to setup SSD Caching on it as it was before with 750GB Hard drive. So the 120GB SSD would be the Main one with OS on it & the 24GB would be the Caching SSD.
But i cannot seem to get it to configure, Accelerate tab on Intel Rapid Storage Technology is missing even though i have installed the drivers multiple times.
It shows both the ssd's but would not let me configure it.
Before when it was the 750GB + 24GB windows would boot up in 3.5 Seconds. now that its all on 120GB ssd it takes 5 seconds. but i want to make that quicker.
Is it even possible to setup a SSD to Cache to an SSD? I have seen other posts some say to enable RAID in BIOS but my BIOS only has AHCI / IDE nothing else.
In computer management the 24GB SSD has a 40 mb OEM partition i guess that contains the serial for windows 8 etc. and the rest is unformatted / unallocated space. Should i Delete the OEM partition & see if it works? or am i Missing something?
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