Accelerator Series 60 GB - Not doing anything?

jimmy99099099 · #1 07-30-2012, 08:37 AM

My SSD dosent seem to be speeding anything on my PC up. I bought one as my brother in law purchased one for his alienware laptop and highly reccomended it to me. His boot time went from 1:25 to 0:14. I have had my 60GB (His is 45) installed for about 4 weeks now and so far my boot time has only gone from 1:45 to 1:20. My brothers laptop boots and shows that it is using "RAID" (Never covered raid in my IT course in college so i have no idea what that is)Do i need to set my BIOS to enable RAID. Would that make a difference? The dataplex software says the drive is O.K:

Status - Enabled!
Target frive - Boot drive (233.7 Gb)
Cahce Drive Corsair SSD ATA drive (55.90GB)

Do i have to set it to enable RAID?

Thanks for your help.

RAM GUY · #2 07-30-2012, 02:26 PM

Please run ATTo and post a screen shot, and then uninstall the Accelerator Drive and run ATTO again.

jimmy99099099 · #3 07-30-2012, 04:24 PM

Before;
http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/...urrent=SS1.png

After;
http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/...current=S2.png

And what is RAID? I kinda want to know for future reference.

Wired · #4 07-30-2012, 05:09 PM

The book o' RAID: http://archive.arstechnica.com/paedia/r/raid-1.html

RAM GUY · #5 07-30-2012, 05:49 PM

You do not have to enable RAID it looks like it was not running on your system, what S-ATA Port was your spinning HDD and what port was the Accelerator drive connected to?

jimmy99099099 · #6 07-31-2012, 07:14 AM

I have rearanged the way i have plugged my HDD's.
They were all over the place. I now have my main HDD on port 1, SSD port 2, 2nd HDD port 3 and Cd/DvD drive port 4

RAM GUY · #7 07-31-2012, 11:48 AM

Please check that the Dataplex software is running and enabled and then run ATTO Again please.

jimmy99099099 · #8 08-01-2012, 03:55 PM

Reinstalled and tested.
New screenshot

http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/...t=SSUpdate.png

RAM GUY · #9 08-01-2012, 06:34 PM

That is much better, does the system feel more snappy now?

masterofn0thing · #10 08-02-2012, 11:18 AM

I just bought it last night. The installation of Dataplex hangs at serial number validation. It just keeps asking me to ensure I have a reliable internet connection, which i have. I can't get past this point. I have registered the product with the id # from the back of the drive.
-Should I be trying to install dataplex without an active firewall/antivirus?
-I have Seagate barracuda 1tb in SATA1
Accelerator in SATA2
Caviar 500 gb in SATA3
Caviar 350 gb in SATA4
CD/DVD in SATA5

also, another question: If I ever get it it to work and it becomes a hybrid type drive with my Barracuda HDD, will I still be able to run scheduled defragmentation on the HDD or will that affect the cache SSD also? Should I stop defragmenting the new combo alltogether?
I am pretty stressed out by this right now..

I was reading the previous poster's issue above, do the SATA connections matter, as in, where I plug in my ribbons? I also had them all over the place before and all was working perfectly...

thanks for your time.

RAM GUY · #11 08-02-2012, 03:55 PM

What O.S. are you using and I assume that you are booting the O.S. from the 1TB HDD? is that correct? Also has any of the other HDD's ever had an O.S. on them?

masterofn0thing · #12 08-02-2012, 07:45 PM

I have win 7 64 bit, installing with only master C drive (with OS on it) connected. No other drives have OSs on them, just pure storage. C: drive is the main one I use with all apps and games.
I disabled the firewall and was able to connect and download.!! :)
Thanks for your reply, but now my main concern is defragging. I use Tune Up utilities which is always running in the background and regularly defrags C drive. Should I stop it from doing that since now it may try to defrag a hybrid -type drive and mess up my cached files???

Thanks

masterofn0thing · #13 08-02-2012, 08:11 PM

Just logging back on to say...
this is just amazing. got it all up and running, after 3rd reboot window screen blinks and system is up. Shaved 52 seconds from old boot time on my 3rd, I say 3rd!!! reboot.

I am still a little concerned about scheduled defrags. Will defrag utilities just leave the SSD side of the equation alone? They don't even know the SSD is in there but when the HDD is defragged, will some data that has been cached "not recognize it's way back home" so-to-speak??

masterofn0thing · #14 08-02-2012, 08:25 PM

Oh yeah, almost forgot:
what about power settings, hybernation, and disk going to "sleep".
Will any of these things mess up the cached files if the mother HDD shuts off while caching is in effect ?? I think these are important points , no?
thx again for your help.

andyvee · #15 08-03-2012, 05:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by masterofn0thing

I have win 7 64 bit, installing with only master C drive (with OS on it) connected. No other drives have OSs on them, just pure storage. C: drive is the main one I use with all apps and games.
I disabled the firewall and was able to connect and download.!! :)
Thanks for your reply, but now my main concern is defragging. I use Tune Up utilities which is always running in the background and regularly defrags C drive. Should I stop it from doing that since now it may try to defrag a hybrid -type drive and mess up my cached files???

Thanks

defrag is fine , hibernation / sleep is not so reliable .