Hi,
I was hoping someone could clear up some confusion I'm having.
I have a new system using a Crucial 64GB M4 SSD as storage. My plan was, and is, to add an HDD (probably a 1TB WD Green) for main storage (I am a gamer) and enable Rapid Storage. I've read a lot of forums with people (who seem far more knowledgeable than me) saying the best move is to have the OS on the SSD (possibly with drivers?) and all other programmes, games, etc on the HDD, using the spare capacity on the SSD as the cache.
What is confusing me is that I've read elsewhere (Custom PC magazine Dec 11 issue, P115) that to enable Smart Response:
So, can anyone please tell me if I go ahead and add the HDD retrospectiveley, will I be in this position, or are there steps I can take to avoid this?
The rest of my relevant system specs are:
GA-Z68X-UD4-B3
Intel i5 2500K
Windows 7 Pro 64Bit
Thanks in advance
I was hoping someone could clear up some confusion I'm having.
I have a new system using a Crucial 64GB M4 SSD as storage. My plan was, and is, to add an HDD (probably a 1TB WD Green) for main storage (I am a gamer) and enable Rapid Storage. I've read a lot of forums with people (who seem far more knowledgeable than me) saying the best move is to have the OS on the SSD (possibly with drivers?) and all other programmes, games, etc on the HDD, using the spare capacity on the SSD as the cache.
What is confusing me is that I've read elsewhere (Custom PC magazine Dec 11 issue, P115) that to enable Smart Response:
.."Plug in only the hard disk. This is the essential step most guides leave out. You first have to install Windows, and then enable Rapid Storage, but if you install Windows 7 with both the SSD and the hard disk installed, Windows will set up the 100MB boot and recovery partition on the SSD. When you then configure the SSD to be a Rapid Storage cache, this partition will be deleted, Windows will have been irreparably broken and your system won't boot".
So, can anyone please tell me if I go ahead and add the HDD retrospectiveley, will I be in this position, or are there steps I can take to avoid this?
The rest of my relevant system specs are:
GA-Z68X-UD4-B3
Intel i5 2500K
Windows 7 Pro 64Bit
Thanks in advance