jimmy99099099 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted July 30, 2012 Corsair Employee Share Posted July 30, 2012 Please run ATTo and post a screen shot, and then uninstall the Accelerator Drive and run ATTO again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy99099099 Posted July 30, 2012 Author Share Posted July 30, 2012 Before; http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg586/Zeneoth/?action=view¤t=SS1.png After; http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg586/Zeneoth/?action=view¤t=S2.png And what is RAID? I kinda want to know for future reference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 The book o' RAID: http://archive.arstechnica.com/paedia/r/raid-1.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted July 30, 2012 Corsair Employee Share Posted July 30, 2012 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy99099099 Posted July 31, 2012 Author Share Posted July 31, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted July 31, 2012 Corsair Employee Share Posted July 31, 2012 Please check that the Dataplex software is running and enabled and then run ATTO Again please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy99099099 Posted August 1, 2012 Author Share Posted August 1, 2012 Reinstalled and tested. New screenshot http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg586/Zeneoth/?action=view¤t=SSUpdate.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted August 1, 2012 Corsair Employee Share Posted August 1, 2012 That is much better, does the system feel more snappy now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterofn0thing Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted August 2, 2012 Corsair Employee Share Posted August 2, 2012 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterofn0thing Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterofn0thing Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 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?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterofn0thing Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyvee Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 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 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterofn0thing Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 I permanently desabled sleep/hybernation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlesquik Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 Do not use hibernation... My ssd broke (well after 8 month of using but still) from a hibernation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlesquik Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 How do you disable it from windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted August 3, 2012 Corsair Employee Share Posted August 3, 2012 It will be under Power Management in Control Panel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterofn0thing Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 I am still unsure about one thing, hybernation/sleep/defrag aside. If a cache SSd with cache'd files on it craps out, like the user above, wouldn't those files still be accessible from the "mother" HDD? I mean, that's where they originate from, they must still be there no matter what. Or does "caching" of files require them to leave C: drive or get modified somehow beyond recovery? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted August 6, 2012 Corsair Employee Share Posted August 6, 2012 Yes that is how it is supposed to work, it will continually update the Host HDD when in use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterofn0thing Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Yes that is how it is supposed to work, it will continually update the Host HDD when in use. Sorry, i'm unclear (due to language barrier perhaps) what you mean. You say the data on HDD is always safe and doesn't get altered? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted August 8, 2012 Corsair Employee Share Posted August 8, 2012 The data that is On the HDD is used as reference and all data that the O.S. or system needs is copied to the Accelerator drive and any data that is modified is updated back the main HDD periodically so the reference data (Spinning HDD) is only accessed if the requested application is not already residing on the cache drive or if there is updated information that need to be changed. However, all of this is done behind the scene so for all intensive purpose you will not see our Accelerator drive even listed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterofn0thing Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 Thanks for your detailed info. All seems safe and good. Going on one week of flawless performance for me. Very high speeds especially at windows boot , chrome, and games load times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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