Anyone familiar with Intel's "smart response technology"

KaiserPhantasma

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so is anyone familiar with it because I kind of bumped onto this intel link while looking for a explanation about the differences between a "Z","H","B","Q","whatever" motherboard lettering scheme (which I would also appreciate if someone can explaint)

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-032826.htm

I read it and sort of understand it a bit...

so the questions would be that I have are
1. will it really make my SSD even faster (currently using a Samsung PRO with its magician software RAPID mode enabled)
2. IF I do enable it will it format my SSD? (as this is where I have my OS installed
3. are there any performance difference (if it doesn't help the SSD I can instead let it help the hard drive as I also have one installed)

I have a Z87 mobo,a intel 1150 processor (4670K) and a samsung PRO SSD
 
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Yes it is designed to speed up an OS HDD/RAID by using a small cheap SSD. You won't really see anything if you...
That is not what it is.

What it allows you to do is take 64Gb or smaller SSD typically 20-32Gb and allow that to act as a cache device for your HDD. It uses an algorithm to determine which files are used most frequently and writes those ones to the SSD (as many as will fit) so they can quickly be accessed.

It needs to be its own SSD there are ways to make it use a partition on the OS drive but it is fairly complicated and doesn't always work.
 

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so it needs to be a "dedicated" one in my case to work (as I don't know the complicated one)? and might overwrite/format my SSD drive that is currently the OS drive?
 


Yes it is designed to speed up an OS HDD/RAID by using a small cheap SSD. You won't really see anything if you use it on a data drive.
 
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